Places Annie Oortman Wants to Go

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

A small medical museum with a recreated doctor's office.

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

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

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

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

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

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

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

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

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

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

This Pringle-shaped ledge makes for the perfect photo op.

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

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.