Places Chelgoroth Wants to Go

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall, but rather lightning.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.

This historic tower in the California desert promises visitors a "vortex of good vibes".

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

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

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

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

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

Where a staggering 747 ships were constructed during World War II.

Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

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.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

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