Places emmyb500 Wants to Go

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

An ultra-modern vista that has been featured in so many films the house is a celebrity in its own right.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

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 strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

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

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

The last of its kind in the country.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

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

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

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