Places kitvishnu Wants to Go

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

Friendships have been forged over ham and eggs every Wednesday morning for a century.

A classically trained chef makes beloved burritos inside a gas station.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft fragrances.

The sun acts as a key that only fits this giant keyhole twice a year.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

An eccentric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.