Places misshalili Wants to Go

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

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

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

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

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

The largest drain hole in the world.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.