Places kitvishnu Wants to Go

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

This San Diego museum is dedicated to preserving women’s historic achievements.

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

This unique sanctuary invites you to interact with the beautiful birds.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

Gorgeous purple flowers drape from the world's largest blossoming plant.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.