Places Noodlista Wants to Go

Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

This restaurant's marvelous musical machines include a self-playing violin.

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

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

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

9,000 square feet of vintage and modern mechanical toys, dioramas & sideshow curiosities.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

The final resting place of a woman who never gave up on love.

This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.

Odd stone and concrete monuments in the "Poet of the Sierras" eclectic folly garden.

An abandoned car and strange wooden debris are among the scattered remains of the old sand and gravel quarry.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

A world of whimsy and wonder aboard a one of a kind historic landmark vessel.