Places Annie Oortman Wants to Go

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

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

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

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

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

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.

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

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

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

The beautiful 1920 Pantages Theatre remains hidden just underneath the LA Downtown Jewelry Exchange.

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

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

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.