Places hibbibi Wants to Go

This collector's home is a constant work in progress.

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

Because there's no place like home.

A monthly street "service" of handmade puppets and live original puppets, whose devotees profess has the power to change lives.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

An artist's vision for connectivity spans seven continents and 16 countries.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

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

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.