Places shelleyra Wants to Go

9,000 square feet of vintage and modern mechanical toys, dioramas & sideshow curiosities.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

This 19th century hydroelectric powerhouse was the first of its kind.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

The final resting place of a woman who never gave up on love.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

This 19th century train workshop is a treasure trove of railroad history.

Where the first "expert riders, willing to risk death daily" for the Pony Express were recruited.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.

Wool processing mill in an unlikely location.

Special tunnels built so that frogs won't be killed when crossing the highway.

Outsider art or homage to aliens?