Places Robert Hemedes Wants to Go

A magically clear, blue river that seems to spring from nowhere.

A 50-foot-tall statue of Jesus where a stairway transports the faithful into his body.

A once great mansion stands in stately ruin.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.

Personal garden filled with mosaics made of recycled garbage.

Giant kites are flown during this Day of the Dead celebration in Guatemala.

An amazing collection of sculptures and art.

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

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

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

Cambria's most unique B&B features creative surroundings and fantastic food.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

360-degree virtual reality chamber physically immerses scientists into their data.

Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.

Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.

The last Americana on Route 66.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.