Places emilyarante Wants to Go

The largest Star Wars collection in the world is its own galaxy of collectibles.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

A veteran Disney animator turned his gift for storytelling to a museum devoted to his love of a California city.

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

This unique sanctuary invites you to interact with the beautiful birds.

The tiniest tiki room in San Diego.

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

One of the greatest heroes of the Titanic tragedy came from humble beginnings to this beautiful home.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

Definitely not a clown bar.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

This Alamo Square mansion is rumored to have hosted satanic rituals and other occult practices.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.