Places jaquinn86 Wants to Go

According to legend it was a nap taken under this tree that kicked off the California Gold Rush.

This hidden fire lookout offers spectacular views of Sequoia National Park.

A spiritual center in the Santa Monica Mountains founded by Alice Coltrane after the death of her husband and fellow jazz musician John Coltrane.

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

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

This park is home to California's first oil boomtown, with structures that have stood for more than a century.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

Over one million bird-related artifacts await.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

Machinery left over from California's once thriving mercury industry now attracts artists and explorers.

Cambria's most unique B&B features creative surroundings and fantastic food.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

Factory that once supported an entire company town of 350.