Places ashleypinnick Wants to Go

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

A fashion designer's dazzling world of Japanese collectibles is hidden in a warehouse downtown.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

Established in 1853, this crumbling cemetery sits forgotten on the corner of Church and Chapel in Gold Country.

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

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

Friendships have been forged over ham and eggs every Wednesday morning for a century.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

This San Diego museum is dedicated to preserving women’s historic achievements.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

The Hopi-style structure was built by the man who discovered Desert Hot Springs' famous mineral water.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.