Places clpartin Wants to Go

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

This abandoned motel doesn't welcome guests anymore, but decay and a creepy atmosphere still call it home.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

The longest burning light bulb in the world.

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

Machinery left over from California's once thriving mercury industry now attracts artists and explorers.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

California's oldest wind harp represents a historic piece of America's Danish history.

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

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

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

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.

This temple, built by an eccentric religious leader before his death, sits guarded and in ruins.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.