Places zlombardo Wants to Go

The secluded beach getaway from Wes Anderson's dreamy summer romance.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.

The bizarre story of the mysterious death and hidden treasure of one of Sanibel Island's early homesteaders.

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

Pay homage to a mysterious feline artifact outside of this Florida museum.

A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.

The first high-tech company in the valley that actually worked with silicon devices.

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

Just below the surface, shrimp are producing temperatures hotter than the sun.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

The youngest volcano in Central America.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

This well-traveled chess park offers scenic views of the pacific and a colorful, eclectic clientele.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."