Places tiernoodle Wants to Go

Odd stone and concrete monuments in the "Poet of the Sierras" eclectic folly garden.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

An abandoned car and strange wooden debris are among the scattered remains of the old sand and gravel quarry.

A restored 1920s cascade stairway provides one of the best views of Oakland's Lake Merritt.

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

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft fragrances.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

One man's prolific, decade-long quest to turn trash into artistic treasure.

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

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

9,000 square feet of vintage and modern mechanical toys, dioramas & sideshow curiosities.

A gruesome memorial for those lost in this area during the Khmer Rouge genocide.

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

Gruesome statues of people reborn in Buddhist hell stand among the ruins of an 11th-century sanctuary.

Temple of a million beers.

World's largest cave was only discovered in 1991, and now offers tours to the public.

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.

This Vietnamese hell cave lets visitors take a walk through a devilish underworld full of demons.

This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.