Places loverofaglover Wants to Go

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

This Gothic castle was inspired by Erik the Red's Viking residence at Brattahlid in Greenland.

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

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

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

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world’s most famous paranormal investigators. Museum is temporarily closed with plans to re-open.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.

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

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

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate turned YouTube famous.

A 1920s home transformed into an immersive art experience, where every room is a portal to another realm.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.