Places clpartin Wants to Go

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

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

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

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

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

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

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

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

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

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

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

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

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