Places MWobrock Wants to Go

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

This unique bed and breakfast was first constructed during the 1800s by a Russian immigrant family.

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

Machinery left over from California's once thriving mercury industry now attracts artists and explorers.

A simple statue outside a California Amtrak station honors the overlooked contributions of the "silent spikes."

Inky sludge oozes to the surface of this beach thanks to a rare natural tar seep.

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

A unique local art exhibit that has continued to grow since 1989.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

The largest outdoor art gallery in the Northwest United States.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

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

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

An outdoor display of military missiles developed at Point Mugu Naval Base.

Rusty pieces of metal jutting out of a breakwater are all that's visible of the 12,500-ton ocean liner that capsized just off the beach.

In the "Danish Capital of America," a replica of one of Copenhagen's most iconic buildings.

California's oldest wind harp represents a historic piece of America's Danish history.