Places Annie Oortman Wants to Go

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

A small, peaceful sculpture garden with a grim memorial to a disaster that took place a few blocks away.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

A celebration of once forgotten materials.

Subterranean house made out of a grain silo, located in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

The Zalud family experienced a number of tragedies in one decade, giving rise to rumors that the 19th century house is haunted.

An ominous concrete cube cuts a dystopian silhouette atop this California mountain.

"The greatest unknown literary treasure in Los Angeles."

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

The Mighty Wurlitzer organ continues to belt out the tunes at downtown El Segundo's historic home for silent and classic movies.

This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.

An enormous artwork that colorfully celebrates over 150 years of US military achievements.

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.

An archive of nearly every day of Buckminster Fuller's life.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

An expansive and intricately restored mansion remains from over a century ago--and so do its ghosts.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

A rough granite monument marks the spot where Europeans first caught sight of the San Francisco Bay.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.