Places clpartin Wants to Go

Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.

Abandoned in 2009, this once popular resort destination now stands frozen in time.

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

A striking eight-story-high obelisk perched on a coastal California cliff.

At the western edge of Palm Springs, a rugged desert canyon trail leads to a waterfall at the base of the San Jacinto Mountains.

A mine in the Sierra Nevada that produced nothing but barren quartz.

An early 20th-century fire lookout, still in intermittent use, preserves legacy fire-locating equipment.

A relic of the region's once booming timber industry.

The helicopter that "Tricky Dick" absconded from the White House in on his last day in office.

A well-preserved sheepherding camp now lies in the heart of the Granite Chief Wilderness, in the high Sierra Nevada.

This lonesome Monterey cypress has survived centuries of wind, salt, and at least one attempt at arson.

The design of this ornately decorated place of worship closely mirrors a church in Vietnam.

A scenic hike in the High Sierra that ends at an old gold mine.

This lighthouse has been guiding shipping into the Golden Gate since before the American Civil War.

This settlement on the original Transcontinental Railroad began by harvesting timber, but transitioned to a forgotten 19th-century industry: harvesting ice.

Unusual white sandstone formations in the Los Padres National Forest.

For decades, the largest tungsten producer in the U.S. was located in a spectacular setting in the high Sierra Nevada, with some of the workings over 11,000 feet.

A unique collection of old miners' cave homes carved in to the hillside cliffs near Death Valley.

In the "Danish Capital of America," a replica of one of Copenhagen's most iconic buildings.

A volcanic cone that formed over 600 years ago.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.