Places Merlucdai Wants to Go

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

A dilapidated amusement park with a million-dollar view.

A neutrino detector built into the largest man-made underground cavity in the world.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.

The traditional houses along the coast of this charming Japanese fishing village allow people to sleep above the sea.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.