Places nicoleeellan Wants to Go

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

Gnomes have their very own bonsai-landscaped settlement on a university campus.

This 1920s masterpiece of French Quarter architecture hides a secret tunnel used by Albert Einstein.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

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

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

Explore an early California pioneer's rancho hidden in LA's manufacturing hinterland.

This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

The mysterious, untimely death of a Canned Heat band member still haunts this unfinished home.

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

Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

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

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Condemned US Navy seaplane control tower turned officers’ club sits atop Yerba Buena Island.

One time home to turn of the century explosives, now hidden under the Bay Bridge.