Places clpartin Wants to Go

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.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

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

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

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.

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

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

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

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

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

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

The largest drain hole in the world.

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

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

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

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

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

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