Places adnoid Wants to Go

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

On the edge of the Valles Caldera National Preserve, these rock formations create an eerie landscape.

Hidden inside a gift shop that doubles as a museum, this gargantuan yo-yo can only be operated by crane.

According to legend it was a nap taken under this tree that kicked off the California Gold Rush.

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

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

Pasadena’s Stonehenge.

Making Ice Cream Hip Since 2008.

Some of the most unusual (and in some cases, disgusting) flavors of soda imaginable.

The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.

One of the only known surviving coconut palm trees in the entire state.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.