Places Debby Morris Wants to Go

Nestled in Coachella Valley, this museum transports guests from the Mesozoic Era, to the land of Egyptian kings.

A shockingly detailed small scale recreation of the temples of Abu Simbel.

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

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

One man's prolific, decade-long quest to turn trash into artistic treasure.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

In 1977, wealthy socialite Sandra West was buried wearing an elegant white nightdress while reclining comfortably in her powder-blue 1964 Ferrari.

This big empty pig is a nostalgic throwback to mid-20th-century Texas barbecue.

A 2,500-pound wooden nickel makes this woodworking museum easy to spot from the road.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

The final resting place of a woman who never gave up on love.

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

The former Naval shipyard is open for exploring - mostly.

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.

The perfect spot for a picnic, right next to a giant ballistic missile.

The oldest Naval chapel in the United States is home to an incredible collection of Tiffany stained-glass windows.

The timepiece that exonerated a labor radical accused of a parade bombing that killed ten people.

The oldest Naval cemetery on the West Coast.

A lively annual event in which thousands of people race to push coffins heavy with bodies up a hill.