Places sarahvjanet Wants to Go

Catch a glimpse of the elusive Peninsular bighorns right off of the desert freeway.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

A "haunted" landmark on the coast of Southern California.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

One of the best collections of antique printing machinery in the world.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

Experience architect Le Corbusier's modernist design for living in the home he designed for himself.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

The world's highest and most dangerous infinity pool lies at the precipice of Victoria Falls.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.