Places jesadair Wants to Go

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

Each winter this underground cave forms a dazzling ice palace.

The beloved dining spot stands at the cross-section of Hollywood and the Old West.

Pay your respects to departed pets, both celebrity and otherwise.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.

The final resting place of the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

Fans of the spicy bright-red sauce can tour where it's made.

The tiniest tiki room in San Diego.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

Spend a day hanging out with domesticated Russian foxes.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

A mountain range on an active U.S. Navy base hides thousands of mysterious prehistoric rock carvings.

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

The decaying adobe remains of an old homestead are just off the beaten path in Joshua Tree National Park.

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

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

Though the original building has been demolished, these massive bronze doors were saved.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.