Places sarahvjanet Wants to Go

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

A big museum full of little worlds.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Inky sludge oozes to the surface of this beach thanks to a rare natural tar seep.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

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

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

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

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

A collection of huge, site-specific sculptures sitting in the Montana woods.

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.

With over 340,000 artifacts and counting, there is something for everyone, often called the "Smithsonian of the West."