Places badgersofdoom Wants to Go

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

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

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

The oldest Naval cemetery on the West Coast.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

Astronomers plan to launch a space telescope into orbit, to find out what exactly stands in the way of an asteroid hitting Earth.

A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.

Barely visible foundations remain where Stow Lake’s “observatory” once welcomed visitors.

San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.