Places ERuler39 Wants to Go

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

Rare collectibles from automated musical instruments to 250 unique automobiles.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

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

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

No one’s quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

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

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

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