Places coffeegrrrl Wants to Go

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

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

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

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

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

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

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

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

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

This 'Murder House' grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

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

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.