Places caitlinhug7 Wants to Go

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

The sun acts as a key that only fits this giant keyhole twice a year.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

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

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.