Places toothbat Wants to Go

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

Believe it or not, this is the final resting place of the man who created the Odditorium.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

A 1920s home transformed into an immersive art experience, where every room is a portal to another realm.

A vaudeville performer mounted this hollowed-out redwood log onto the chassis of a truck, and toured the country spreading a message of conservation.

This hiking/biking/horse trail along an old railroad grade features trestles, tunnels, and a roadless stretch through the scenic Susan River canyon.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.

The flow from this waterfall sometimes comes out of springs below its rim.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

An ever-updating collection of retro Americana.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.

An enormous goose sits atop this nest-shaped home.

Origin of the blue-skinned Fugates of eastern Kentucky.

Unique tower has outlasted a takeover of the company.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

This abandoned cemetery has a dark past of bodies buried over bodies.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

A ship that lived many lives under many names is now known merely as the "Ghost Ship."