Places chelsb423 Wants to Go

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

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

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

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

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

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

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

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

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

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

The largest drain hole in the world.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

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

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

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

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

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.