Places strangersigh Wants to Go

To get to or from this Canadian ghost town, you'll need to cross 11 single-lane bridges.

A facility built in 1992 for an underground nuclear test remains in place today.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

One of the best-preserved ghost towns in Arizona speaks to the difficulties of establishing mining towns in the 19th century American West.

A settlement that was stopped in the middle of construction, leaving behind paved roads, curbs, light poles, a stormwater drainage system, and even a basketball court, but no houses.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

This museum in San Francisco's Chinatown is one of the oldest and largest archives of Chinese American history and culture.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

Where a staggering 747 ships were constructed during World War II.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

A porcelain company's former dumping ground, completely covered in pieces of collectible ceramics.

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

From buttons to beads, flounces to fripperies, this textile museum and shop honors the history of needlework.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.