Places yazo Wants to Go

An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

A celebration of once forgotten materials.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

Originally built as a promotional giveaway, this suburban house was designed to be an IRL version of the Simpson home.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

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

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Get three sheets to the wind at this desert winery with a nautical theme.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

Giant nude woman of Tijuana is also the artist's home.

A futuristic-looking beach house built for the owner of a snack food brand.

These unusual houses look like giant boats that washed ashore on a residential street.

The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.

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

The “jail” hidden away in Old Town Temecula that was never actually a jail.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.