Places chickadonzk Wants to Go

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

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

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

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

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

The largest drain hole in the world.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

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

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

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

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

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

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.