Places mojavenc Wants to Go

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

These distorting, funhouse mirrors achieved fame in a renowned piece of Spanish theater.

A display of torture devices used in the Spanish Inquisition and other scourges of medieval Europe.

At least according to the Guinness World Records.

The world's largest wooden structure.

Colorful sedimentary rock layers provide opportunities both for hiking and photography.

Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.

One of the only known surviving coconut palm trees in the entire state.

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

Gorgeous purple flowers drape from the world's largest blossoming plant.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

Whiskey lovers, this is your happy place.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

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

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

Craft liquors concocted in an old Seattle warehouse.