Places jessicacripps Wants to Go

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

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.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

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

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

The last of its kind in the country.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.