Places Dapper Dan 9 Wants to Go

This park is home to California's first oil boomtown, with structures that have stood for more than a century.

Gouged in the mountain to make stage coach access easier through the Fremont Pass.

This Southern Californian Conservation Center is home to singing and howling apes.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

In the "Danish Capital of America," a replica of one of Copenhagen's most iconic buildings.

An improbable set of attractive limestone caverns forms the centerpiece of Providence Mountains State Recreation Area, in the heart of the Mojave Desert.

California's most comprehensive horticultural library.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

A monumental cross hides in the trees in Golden Gate Park.

A playing field for a popular French past time can be found tucked away in a quiet corner of Golden Gate Park.

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

Barely visible foundations remain where Stow Lake’s “observatory” once welcomed visitors.

This historic roadhouse has many tales to tell of San Francisco's early history.

Sitting atop San Francisco's tallest hill, a cross honors the victims of the Armenian genocide.

These six walrus head statues harken back to a time when this area wasn't far from the oceanfront.