Places paleasfunk Wants to Go

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

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

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.

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.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

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

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.