Places breaingram Wants to Go

This restaurant's marvelous musical machines include a self-playing violin.

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

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

A restored 1920s cascade stairway provides one of the best views of Oakland's Lake Merritt.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

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

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

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

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

The stately birthplace of California's statehood.

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

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

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

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.

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

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

Inside this library turned museum, the history of Modesto and Stanislaus County is on full display.

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

Built in 1895, this bed and breakfast was once a hospital that served an early 1900s Gold Rush boomtown.