Places RoadtripRandy Wants to Go

A tribute to the disposable cups that were once manufactured here, this 68-foot-tall statue would be difficult to throw away.

Get your footwear fixed inside a 30-foot-long shoe built by an obsessive cobbler in 1947.

A large lava tube that can be walked through with no special equipment.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

The smallest country in the world.

The victims of a free-floating Japanese bombing during WWII are remembered by this stone monument.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

This strange hill on Old Fort Road where gravity works in reverse has been fascinating locals for years.

This sculpture of a bowler hat is complemented by a matching umbrella a few blocks away.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

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

A train tunnel that was made obsolete by the dam it helped create.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

These markers are used to determine the ground stability of the Strip.

A fire lookout atop a glacial pinnacle is reached by climbing three vertiginous flights of stairs.

This 19th century train workshop is a treasure trove of railroad history.

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.