Places dionysia Wants to Go

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

Suburban observatory was personal lab of the father of modern astrophysics.

Working mining and drilling equipment demonstrate 150 years of energy history.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

A small medical museum with a recreated doctor's office.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Mexican food and folk art.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

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

Large tower used for simulating radiation of Hiroshima bomb and the tallest object ever relocated.

Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.

In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.

A mysterious and endangered parasitic herb from the California desert.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.