Places mischchief Wants to Go

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

Huts like this were once a hub for the female divers who collected pearls and seafood off Japan's coasts.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

Pasadena’s Stonehenge.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

Huge hole looks down onto an underground beach populated with sea lions.

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

Early habitat dioramas and home of the elusive gaff, the skvader.

Somewhere between an art studio and a print shop, this artists storefront is a house of worship devoted to type.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.