Places varmicon Wants to Go

A mixture of strange symbols, ciphers, words and cryptograms carved in 1876 remain unsolved to this day.

This exoskeleton was gifted to Rutgers University by Japan for its role in educating some of the first Japanese citizens to study outside the country.

The first museum in the U.S. to address human rights issues in China.

The former home of Lillian Evans Tibbs and her grandson, Thurlow Evans Tibbs Jr., whose prodigious contributions to music and art spanned more than 90 years.

This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.

Flames have been burning within this mountain for more than 2,500 years.

Roman ruins, natural methane fires and a lovely beach.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

Across Ring Mountain is a vast collection of Native American petroglyphs unique to the region.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

George Lucas donated this park to honor the birthplace of his two biggest movie franchises.

The remains of a deserted steamboat sit rusting beside an old ferry pier and an abandoned train platform.

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.

Centuries of biking history are nestled in the shadow of the birthplace of contemporary mountain biking.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

An ever-updating collection of retro Americana.

An enchanting tunnel of cypress trees leads to an old morse code station still used today.