Places mfoster42 Wants to Go

Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

The Southern California pop sounds of surf and sand were born right here.

A bright California graveyard with a decidedly dark side.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

A forgotten relic from New York's bygone trolley system hides in plain sight under a bridge.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

A unique piece of graffiti offers a little slice of local history and mystery.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.