Places alaskanmoss Wants to Go

Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

A master of deception, Harry Houdini's greatest trick may have been living in two places at once.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

No one’s quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

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

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

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

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.