Places embeekrais Wants to Go

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

This general store offers visitors a glimpse back into the 1930s.

Each winter this underground cave forms a dazzling ice palace.

Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.

A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.

The decaying adobe remains of an old homestead are just off the beaten path in Joshua Tree National Park.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

This childhood throwback has hundreds of arcade games and pinball machines to transport you back in time.

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

At this 1940s-era neighborhood favorite, you can still drink a cherry phosphate.

Law-protected wreckage serves as a peculiar memorial for an almost forgotten World War II tragedy.

Spend a day hanging out with domesticated Russian foxes.

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.