Places mzpete3 Wants to Go

A diorama lover's dream world.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

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

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

This small, unassuming street is now a canvas for color and creativity.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

This medieval village/restaurant perpetually celebrates the year 1376.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

The tiny church offers succor to travelers driving by, but only eight at a time.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

Over 75 historically themed murals grace the walls of a small Washington city.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

The classic lawn figurine now claims this wooded area as home.