Places Dapper Dan 9 Wants to Go

For over 20 years, Lil Toot has delighted guests with narrated boat rides between Stearns Wharf and Santa Barbara Harbor, becoming a beloved local legend and top-rated experience for visitors.

The stately birthplace of California's statehood.

This cabin from the 1850s is one of the first structures built by Chinese immigrants in California.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

Tucked away behind an unassuming set of shops is a must-see series of stunning murals.

The Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

This conservation area is also home to many of the region's desert tortoises.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

Sojourn to the past at this residence teeming with 1950s memorabilia.

This Pringle-shaped ledge makes for the perfect photo op.

This historic tower in the California desert promises visitors a "vortex of good vibes".

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.