Places jesadair Wants to Go

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

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

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

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

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

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

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.