Places michaelcsiemsen Wants to Go

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.

This cabin once belonged to one of California's original settlers.

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

A tribute to one man's legacy of improving the accordion's reputation.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

A working model of a pressure-driven, high-speed rail whizzes around a private vineyard.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

A vaudeville performer mounted this hollowed-out redwood log onto the chassis of a truck, and toured the country spreading a message of conservation.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

It took 28 years to build this massive statue of the Hindu god Vishnu riding a mythical bird.

This Balinese sea temple is thought to be guarded by the hundreds of monkeys that live around it.

This sacred cave temple is home to thousands of bats and according to legend, a giant snake king.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

Murder scene memorialized in perpetuity by grisly obelisk.

In a town that's had a whole lot of giant chairs this one still stands tall, just not the tallest.

This historic folk museum celebrates the attention to detail that makes America great.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.