Places katherineroland Wants to Go

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

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

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

This odd little museum holds exhibits on everything from blacksmith equipment to hair jewelry.

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.

A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

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

An Argentinian businessman facing terminal cancer built this whimsical medieval village using salvaged materials.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

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

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

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

This lesser known Hearst estate is a fairytale village built from the stolen bones of historic European buildings.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.