Places krittypryde Wants to Go

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

This "synagogue" is not what it seems to be.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

The artwork that Italians felt California didn't deserve.

Suburban observatory was personal lab of the father of modern astrophysics.

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

Hidden among the multi-million dollar mansions in the Santa Cruz hills is a sanctuary for troubled birds.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.

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

A popular winter vacation destination for migrating monarch butterflies.

A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

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

Antiques by the Bay.

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

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.