Places haydenrcarroll Wants to Go

Machinery left over from California's once thriving mercury industry now attracts artists and explorers.

A commercial fishing boat stranded on the California coast.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

This lonesome Monterey cypress has survived centuries of wind, salt, and at least one attempt at arson.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Stand inside the dark interior of an historic redwood tree that once was used as a general's headquarters.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

The oldest house in the capital of Silicon Valley.

This massive redwood tree has stood in Northern California for nearly 2,000 years.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into... we can't find the words.