Places alaskanmoss Wants to Go

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

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