Places Ryshili Wants to Go

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

The tiniest tiki room in San Diego.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

This stately structure has been abandoned for half a century.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

Law-protected wreckage serves as a peculiar memorial for an almost forgotten World War II tragedy.

Step into Narnia at this small park featuring statues from "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe."

In Coyoacán, a pair of coyotes crown a public fountain in reference to the ancient Aztec name of the borough.

These 12th-century catacombs carved into a mountainside were a place of mysticism and Christian hermitages.

The amazing wonder cabinets of a very rich Austrian archbishop.

Amidst medieval and baroque buildings, five human-sized gherkins stand tall.

An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.

Formerly a lovely white sand beach this Hawaiian stretch is now a trap for countless tons of trash.

The tragic heiress Barbara Woolworth Hutton built her seventh husband this Japanese-inspired palace in Mexico.

Suspended above the ground in a thicket of towering Georgia trees is a modern architectural wonder.

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

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.