Places ImGolden Wants to Go

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.

A steamer run aground near Bimini lives a second life as a playground for scuba divers.

Rusting, graffiti-covered tanks litter the beach of this island, once used by the U.S. military for target practice.

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

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

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

A lovely summer day by the sea becomes a nightmare.