Places to Stay in California

This bright and bubbly Palm Springs hotel was the brainchild of an iconic drag queen.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

The home of one of California's most important horticulturalists wilts amidst a lovely park.

Built in 1895, this bed and breakfast was once a hospital that served an early 1900s Gold Rush boomtown.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.