Places txarmyof1 Wants to Go

While you're unlikely to find riches here these days, this remote mine is a time capsule of the Gold Rush era.

This outdoor observatory offers stellar views and a scale model of our solar system.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

The decaying adobe remains of an old homestead are just off the beaten path in Joshua Tree National Park.

Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.

A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

This giant spider sculpture made from the iconic car is one giant visual pun.

The moving metal works of one troubled artist can still be viewed on his front lawn... for now.

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

A giant cat slowly prowls the parking lot of Zebulon's car dealerships.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

The giant birds honor two native North American species.

An effigy of Vancouver's Gastown neighorhood's namesake.

This little Vancouver shack is a temple to all things Hendrix.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

A winding stairway to a secluded beach in a residential neighborhood.

Thousand-year-old trees tower within one of the world's only inland temperate rainforests.

A unique spiral staircase that doesn't quite make it up to the top floor.

Saved by a logger, this Douglas fir is one of the last great old-growth trees in Canada.

At just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.