Places queensissy Wants to Go

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

An ominous concrete cube cuts a dystopian silhouette atop this California mountain.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

Apple memorabilia in an undisclosed warehouse, hidden for undisclosed reasons.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.

Hidden among the multi-million dollar mansions in the Santa Cruz hills is a sanctuary for troubled birds.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

An Aladdin's cave of old Silicon Valley tech.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

Humboldt's human-powered sculptures race across land and sea for days on end in a wacky quest for dominance.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

A chance to sleep among the firs and pines of the Oregon forest.