Places pamkeesey Wants to Go

Hidden in a Hollywood apartment, this restaurant takes diners on a gastronomic journey through West Africa.

This secluded date farm can be reached only by following a bumpy, single-lane desert road.

An oddity shop filled with loads of bones, skulls, crafting materials, vintage taxidermy, and more.

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

One of the largest Buddhist communities in the West sits on the site of an old hospital.

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

Try the frozen treat that inspired Arrested Development's famous banana stand.

One doctor's retirement plan included opening this award-winning Mexican-Indian eatery on the ground floor of a hospital.

A campy fiberglass statue welcomes visitors to this small town in central California.

A statue destroyed by a 1987 earthquake lies in pieces on a university campus.

Anyone can play paleontologist at this quarry that has Cambrian fossils galore.

This museum is a full-size replica of an original church constructed during the 13th-century.

A plaque and memorabilia collection mark where A&W got its start.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

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

Stock up on all your horror paraphernalia at this year-round Halloween emporium.

This colorful theme park dedicated the official fruit of Maine serves sweet, tasty treats.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

A mesmerizing disco ball-like sculpture along the Sacramento River Walk.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

At this 1940s-era neighborhood favorite, you can still drink a cherry phosphate.