Places m25tolife Wants to Go

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.

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

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

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

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

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

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

An eccentric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."

Pay your respects to departed pets, both celebrity and otherwise.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

This collector's home is a constant work in progress.

A little barn in the middle of the city preserving Hollywood treasures since 1985.

From sax to spuds, get 'em all at this landmark music establishment.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

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

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.