Places venusonegative Wants to Go

A small shop filled with history, mystery, folklore, and more.

This hidden, women-built-and-operated Nevada temple on Shoshone Native American land is dedicated to the Egyptian lion goddess Sekhmet among other goddesses.

A priest with no formal artistic training used basic house paint to create gorgeous religious scenes inside this historic church.

This legendary urban waterfall creates a dazzling display of rainbows.

A model of a galactic embassy is hidden in plain sight along the highway, proposed by a UFO religion to find the aliens that created life on Earth.

A true treehouse near Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.

One of the last remaining Carpenter Gothic churches is situated on a wildflower conservatory overlooking the bay.

In the basement of a San Francisco performing arts center, a small museum dedicated to the history of showgirls.

Sojourn to the past at this residence teeming with 1950s memorabilia.

This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.

At this 1940s-era neighborhood favorite, you can still drink a cherry phosphate.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

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

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

This mysterious and creepy location instills a strong sense of foreboding in all visitors.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.