Places adamvasquez6 Wants to Go

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

One incredible room in the Santa Barbara Courthouse is covered in wall-to-wall canvas murals.

Windswept and remote, this island was once the home of a rare mammoth and today is home to a rare tree.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall, but rather lightning.

The echoes of a railroad town that solemnly mark the end of the line.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.