Places clpartin Wants to Go

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

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

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

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

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.