Places tkwhit02 Wants to Go

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

These mansions date back to Chicago's days as a brewer's paradise.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.

The great American road trip, but smaller.

One of New Zealand’s few castles boasts beautiful gardens, grand architecture, and a history filled with family drama.

France's Lilliputian park displays over 100 of the country's monuments for visitor perusal.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

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

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.