Places Wsdm Wants to Go

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

A celebration of the animation wizard's childhood home and antique railroad memorabilia collection.

This mansion was made famous by its colorful cast of owners and location along the Sante Fe Trail.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

Built in 1899, this luxurious home was part of one of the first gated communities in Los Angeles.

Military artifacts from the Salvadoran Civil War are displayed in this small but notable museum.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's 1943 book shares a surprising connection with El Salvador.

An abandoned 1930s gas station turned bustling neighborhood park.

A mural in rural Georgia welcomes visitors to a fictional Missouri town.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

The historic home of the pivotal political activist who led the Métis people in rebellion against the Canadian government.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

The first privately-owned space capsule to orbit and land carried a secret payload: a wheel of Le Brouère.

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

Once the central jail for Los Angeles, this building housed inmates like Al Capone, those arrested from the Zoot Suit and Watts Riots, and individuals imprisoned for their sexuality.

This park is home to California's first oil boomtown, with structures that have stood for more than a century.

It's not quite as old as its Roman appearance suggests, but this piece of infrastructure served Guatemala City for centuries.

This restored colonial house was once home to the botanist responsible for bringing avocados to the U.S.

Believe it or not, the now-ubiquitous California avocado originated in Guatemala.

Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.

The first attack on the continental U.S. during WWII occurred off the coast of a quiet California golf course.

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

Gnomes have their very own bonsai-landscaped settlement on a university campus.