Places NixOfNowhere Wants to Go

Famous and forgotten figures lie beneath the faded headstones and decaying planks of wood.

A large sculptural artwork and garden in Escondido, California.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

This San Diego museum is dedicated to preserving women’s historic achievements.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

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

Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

An inconspicuous suburban street corner is the site of San Diego's worst air disaster.

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

A magnificent, reportedly haunted mansion built for a composer by Spiritualists.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Lemon Grove, California is known for its giant lemon...and mummified bodies.

The freeway that never was.

One man's quest for the ultimate road trip vehicle.

At a Bangkok bistro, one pot of beef stew has been cooking non-stop for more than 45 years.

This French Canadian classic is a specialty of the oldest continually used church in Minneapolis.

This pedestrian walkway cuts through a cemetery and over several burial vaults.

The avant-garde design was able to bypass strict Soviet regulations on architecture.

This frozen-in-time summer home outside Moscow provides a look at Russian life in the 1950s.