Places butterflywings Wants to Go

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

A magnificent, reportedly haunted mansion built for a composer by Spiritualists.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

Mexican food and folk art.

Oldest building in California still in use.

Traversing these canyons, visitors can take in stunning views and glimpses of the region's history.

Napa's oldest building is now a Mexican restaurant.

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

California's longest-running tourist attraction is a stump.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

A scenic hike in the High Sierra that ends at an old gold mine.

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.

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

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

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

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.