Places zentropy Wants to Go

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

Housing the National Women's Party since 1929, this historic house is now a monument to the fight for gender equality.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

Two dozen pinball games hidden away inside a most unlikely location.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

A quirky collection of figurines backdropped by city views is hidden next to a popular restaurant in the Hollywood hills.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

This Pringle-shaped ledge makes for the perfect photo op.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

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

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.