Places Sun Wants to Go

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

The oldest structure in a beachside California city was built to serve eight students.

This unique sanctuary invites you to interact with the beautiful birds.

These unusual houses look like giant boats that washed ashore on a residential street.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

Iconic Los Angeles residence famous for its 19 statues of Michelangelo's David.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.

Gnomes have their very own bonsai-landscaped settlement on a university campus.

A mysterious crater-like pond has a spooky tendency to empty and fill with complete disregard to rainfall patterns.

An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Cornish legend says these ancient circles were people turned to stone for playing hurling on a Sunday.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.

The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.