Places nooker21 Wants to Go

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

The small family-run business has kept alive the fading art of creating beautiful handmade book covers.

The creator of the carousel's bingo-pinball hybrid survives in California's oldest gaming establishment.

The final resting place of the songwriter who penned “Take Me Out To The Ball Game."

These magnificent city walls rise from the barren sun-baked Spanish plains like something straight out of a fairytale.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

An eclectic collection of artifacts from the Wild West is preserved in a remote fictional pioneer town.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

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

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.