Places Renée Wants to Go

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

At a museum of everyday objects, it is the act of collecting that is really on display.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

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

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

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

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

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

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

Over one million bird-related artifacts await.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.