Places cconway7 Wants to Go

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

This mysterious series of teeny guerrilla installations sheds a whimsical light on street art in Oakland.

A small, peaceful sculpture garden with a grim memorial to a disaster that took place a few blocks away.

A celebration of once forgotten materials.

Subterranean house made out of a grain silo, located in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.

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

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

The Mighty Wurlitzer organ continues to belt out the tunes at downtown El Segundo's historic home for silent and classic movies.

The final resting place of the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

A mountain range on an active U.S. Navy base hides thousands of mysterious prehistoric rock carvings.

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.

The decaying adobe remains of an old homestead are just off the beaten path in Joshua Tree National Park.

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

Suburban observatory was personal lab of the father of modern astrophysics.

In this roadside "community for the small," abandoned toys gain new lives.

Despite being a perfectly pleasant place to be, Loyalton can't seem to attract any visitors.

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.

This mysterious petroglyph evokes the ancient swastika symbol but was later vandalized with the more troublesome Nazi one.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.