Places alaskanmoss Wants to Go

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

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

Because there's no place like home.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

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

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

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

Gorgeous purple flowers drape from the world's largest blossoming plant.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.