Places lisavaca Wants to Go

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

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

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

This California estate was either haunted by ghosts or the Marx brothers.

The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.

In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.

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

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.

This Southern Californian Conservation Center is home to singing and howling apes.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.