Places lauraandrian Wants to Go

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

Handmade treasures from around the world.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

An artist's vision for connectivity spans seven continents and 16 countries.

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

Built by one man in the '20s, this site is now a museum representing the Great Basin cultures.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

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