Places haydenrcarroll Wants to Go

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

A porcelain company's former dumping ground, completely covered in pieces of collectible ceramics.

Where a staggering 747 ships were constructed during World War II.

The remains of a deserted steamboat sit rusting beside an old ferry pier and an abandoned train platform.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

The only standing town in the United States that early Chinese Americans built for themselves.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

The cavern’s main chamber is so vast that the Statue of Liberty could reportedly fit inside it.

Hidden beneath a lake for decades, this brutalist mine has now emerged from beneath the receding waters.

The geographic center point of the Golden State.

For decades, the largest tungsten producer in the U.S. was located in a spectacular setting in the high Sierra Nevada, with some of the workings over 11,000 feet.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

After the nearby mercury mine shut down, this town was abandoned and declared a Superfund site.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

The San Andreas Fault spectacularly offsets this creek.

Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.

This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.

California's largest steel arch bridge.

In the "Danish Capital of America," a replica of one of Copenhagen's most iconic buildings.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.