Places westcoastspirit Wants to Go

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

A porcelain company's former dumping ground, completely covered in pieces of collectible ceramics.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world’s most famous paranormal investigators. Museum is temporarily closed with plans to re-open.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

A remote desert lookout offers unparalleled views of the California badlands for those who brave the trek.

A wondrous place to watch a special flower bloom.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

This oasis-like spring in the Sonoran Desert is home to unique, endangered species.

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

Some 10,000 works of ancient rock art cover these volcanic basalt outcrops near the Gila River.

The remnants of an early automobile route across shifting sand dunes can still be found in the deserts of Southern California.

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

Cliffs full of fossils at the portal to England's Jurassic Coast.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.