Places penn825 Wants to Go

A celebration of once forgotten materials.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

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

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.

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

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

This former boomtown "island" is now submerged below Folsom Lake.

The smallest country in the world.

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

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

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.