Places gatorskulls Wants to Go

An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

The small family-run business has kept alive the fading art of creating beautiful handmade book covers.

For over 20 years, Lil Toot has delighted guests with narrated boat rides between Stearns Wharf and Santa Barbara Harbor, becoming a beloved local legend and top-rated experience for visitors.

Wheels of chrome by the thousands adorn this California Historical Landmark.

This California estate was either haunted by ghosts or the Marx brothers.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.

Inky sludge oozes to the surface of this beach thanks to a rare natural tar seep.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

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

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

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

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

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

Russian history in San Francisco.