Places MikeInSanFrancisco Wants to Go

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

"Enter and be entertained or annoyed by Dada in Walla Walla."

In the midst of a residential town in Washington exists a property saturated with one man's artistic creations.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

The second tallest railway trestle bridge in America.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

32,000 tiny soldiers are posed in 23 historical settings.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

This miniature Paris, built out of trash, is one man's two decade labor of love.

This series of landscape dioramas tell the story of New England forestry in exacting miniature detail.

This workshop and small museum is dedicated to tiny, delicate figurines that began as a subversive craft after the French Revolution.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

The beehive-like buildings of this abandoned resort reside near the border of Mauritania and Senegal.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

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

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

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

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

This mysterious Bronze Age standing stone has become a place where couples profess their love.