Places BlackCloud Wants to Go

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

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

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

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

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

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

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.