Places woodcuts Wants to Go

Large tower used for simulating radiation of Hiroshima bomb and the tallest object ever relocated.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

A land of debatable treasure.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

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

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

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