Places Nojestes Wants to Go

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

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

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

This one-room schoolhouse in rural Arkansas dates to the 1920s, but looks like it could be the 1820s.