Places akimotoru Wants to Go

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

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

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate turned YouTube famous.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

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

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

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

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

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

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

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.