Places groteregimbal Wants to Go

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

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

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

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

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

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

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

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

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.