Places sierrawest Wants to Go

A remarkable abandoned cinema that looks like it's frozen in time.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

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

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.