Places caseyjacks Wants to Go

A musical instrument played by the sea.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

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

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 strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

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

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

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

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

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

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

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

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.