Places skylarkmatthews Wants to Go

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

"The Reptile Man's" very own roadside zoo features an albino alligator.

This tiny home built on revenge appears to be scarcely wider than a Volkswagen.

A library of only unpublished manuscripts.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.