Places wheninroam Wants to Go

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

Amazing meticulous gardens of personal wood carvings, Hydrangea, Canna, and many other flowers.

Somewhere between an art studio and a print shop, this artists storefront is a house of worship devoted to type.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

This lesser known Hearst estate is a fairytale village built from the stolen bones of historic European buildings.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

Canada’s surprisingly controversial monument to Dwight Eisenhower.

The granite head appears to be deep in thought and half buried in the ground.

The only way to visit this old resort hotel is with scuba gear.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

Eclectic musical collection ranging from hurdy gurdies and orphicas to the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio.

This mysterious taxidermy man-beast of the seven seas resides at the Banff Trading Post.

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.