Places nejuum Wants to Go

Eight huge lanterns lining a city street can change color on command.

The oldest house in the capital of Silicon Valley.

A lonely monument to the original Silicon Valley tech campus.

Three plaques mark the spot where the "forgotten father of broadcasting" worked.

Exquisite irises bloom every spring in this hillside garden.

Historical trolley restoration and operation at History San Jose, Kelly Park.

A plaque outside the San Jose airport commemorates the insect's arrival to the West Coast.

A mysterious monument covered in a binary code marks the heart of tech.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

For roadside fast food, pull over at the giant orange.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

This London marker celebrates the spot where the world-famous English band was founded.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

On October 17, 1814, a 15-ft. wave of beer ran rampant through the streets of London.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.