Places tiernoodle Wants to Go

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

This general store offers visitors a glimpse back into the 1930s.

Explore the wide world of desert plants at this unique Palm Springs botanical garden.

This brutalist monument is inscribed with 9921 names of Yugoslav partisans who perished during WWII.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Built by one man in the '20s, this site is now a museum representing the Great Basin cultures.

Where decommissioned airplanes and helicopters go to become part of Hollywood.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

Built in the early 70s, the ruins of dinosaurs are all that remains of a man’s dream to build a free dinosaur themed mini golf course

This strangely vacant Western amusement seems to be an empty tribute to residents of Lucerne Valley.

Mexican food and folk art.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

The only museum and archive west of the Mississippi that is dedicated to the study of Abraham Lincoln.

Its most enigmatic sculpture is a giantess with a ghostly face on her knee.

Founded by a Basque immigrant, Mexico City's oldest bakery has a history dating back to 1870.

A tribute to the disposable cups that were once manufactured here, this 68-foot-tall statue would be difficult to throw away.

These haunting ruins of a 700-year-old Prehispanic city have witnessed centuries of wars and massacres.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

This seaside sanctuary was once one of the most important religious sites for women in ancient Greece.