Places venicedoll Wants to Go

When the rain falls, this drain system turns into a musical instrument.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

Explore an early California pioneer's rancho hidden in LA's manufacturing hinterland.

The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.

The spot where the two men ate together now stands enclosed in glass.

A 246-foot-high revolving restaurant rises unexpectedly from a forested Finnish hilltop.

The world's northernmost brewery uses water from a 2,000-year-old glacier to create its beer.

A palatial former bank building now houses what may be the poshest art venue (and former Tesco) in Belfast.

The giantess welcomes travelers to a small Saskatchewan town with a traditional Slavic greeting of bread and salt.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

These mysterious 1,000-year-old walls have revealed little about their past.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

The house where Good Will Hunting was written is a surreal fairytale abode.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall, but rather lightning.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.