Places eecarter Wants to Go

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

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

Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling) themed taco shop.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

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

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

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

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

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

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

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

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

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

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.