Places embeekrais Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

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

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

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

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).