Places Mike Walker Wants to Go

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

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

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

For many years, the river that Julius Caesar led his army across into Italy was lost until re-identified.

This tower is one of the best-preserved (and least-visited) remnants of medieval Paris.

A no-frills cinephile haven known for showing offbeat, underseen films.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.