Places sheerie143 Wants to Go

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

Centuries of biking history are nestled in the shadow of the birthplace of contemporary mountain biking.

Built from one couple’s vast personal collection, this free museum showcases a century’s worth of state-sponsored agitprop.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

This sculpture was made out of recycled guns that were turned in to the city.

This mysterious series of teeny guerrilla installations sheds a whimsical light on street art in Oakland.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

An abandoned car and strange wooden debris are among the scattered remains of the old sand and gravel quarry.

Odd stone and concrete monuments in the "Poet of the Sierras" eclectic folly garden.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

The only standing town in the United States that early Chinese Americans built for themselves.

At a Bangkok bistro, one pot of beef stew has been cooking non-stop for more than 45 years.

A forest of phallic offerings found in a quiet corner of a hotel car park.

A collection of venomous snakes and reptiles for the whole family to enjoy.

A three-table eatery sits inside the home-kitchen of a seafood virtuoso in Bangkok's Chinatown.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

The bank's whimsical shape was inspired by a child’s toy.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.