Places fiona123 Wants to Go

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

One doctor's retirement plan included opening this award-winning Mexican-Indian eatery on the ground floor of a hospital.

Experience the glam side of air travel without leaving the ground at this speakeasy.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

Perhaps the most unique of any Frank Gehry design for one simple reason: Gehry himself actually lives here.

Every weekend, people gather here for a brief chance to see their loved ones on the other side of the United States–Mexico border.

Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

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

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

Antiques by the Bay.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

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

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.