Places caitlinhug7 Wants to Go

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

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

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

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

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

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

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

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

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

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

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

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

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

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

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

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.