Places Kate Rayne Wants to Go

For roadside fast food, pull over at the giant orange.

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

This restaurant's marvelous musical machines include a self-playing violin.

Eight huge lanterns lining a city street can change color on command.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

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

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

This large round boulder is said to emit spiritual power, but it may just be magnets.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

This was once the center of the Birdman cult, and is now a World Heritage Site.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

Once the largest town in eastern Yuba County now sits abandoned.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

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