Places embeekrais Wants to Go

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

Gorgeous purple flowers drape from the world's largest blossoming plant.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.