San Jose, California
Monopoly in the Park
The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
San Jose, California
The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.
Leggett, California
This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.
La Cañada Flintridge, California
An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.
Big Pine, California
Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.
Lancaster, California
Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.
San Francisco, California
Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.
Truckee, California
The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.
San Francisco, California
The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.
San Francisco, California
The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.
Tulelake, California
Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.
San Francisco, California
An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.
San Francisco, California
The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.
Los Angeles, California
This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.
Humboldt County, California
One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.
Sequoia National Park, California
Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).
San Francisco, California
The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.
Fresno, California
An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.
Los Angeles, California
Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.
Los Angeles, California
A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.
Mammoth Lakes, California
Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.
Inyo County, California
The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.
Los Angeles, California
The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.
Los Angeles, California
The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.