Places snailhugs Wants to Go

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

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

Location of the most powerful laser in the world, and the potential birthplace of tiny stars.

The black lab that was voted mayor of a California town is forever remembered by a life-size statue.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

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

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

A mysterious and endangered parasitic herb from the California desert.