Places cemousley Wants to Go

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

This historic graveyard was partially paved over to create a streetcar line.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

A hidden courtyard houses early 20th-century plaster masterpieces.

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

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

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

The oldest standing structure in downtown San Diego.

The Jewish section of the famous Boothill Graveyard was abandoned for nearly 100 years.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

The first Protestant church in Arizona and only Gothic Revival style adobe church in the world.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

This church on a Tohono O'Odham reservation has stood since 1797.

Some of Arizona's best spit-roasted tacos al pastor can be found here.

This southwestern historic site was designed and built by an artist who wanted his work to "feel at home."

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

A 1930’s courtroom where John Dillinger and his gang went before a judge.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

This bomb shelter-themed bar has barely changed since it opened.

From working out of his garage to the James Beard semifinals, one Tucson baker has kept his fan base—and his grains—local.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.