Places badgersofdoom Wants to Go

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

An expansive and intricately restored mansion remains from over a century ago--and so do its ghosts.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

Law-protected wreckage serves as a peculiar memorial for an almost forgotten World War II tragedy.

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

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

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.

Abandoned landscape once home to "the world's largest winery."

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

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

One time home to turn of the century explosives, now hidden under the Bay Bridge.

The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.