Places maccasimmons Wants to Go

Gouged in the mountain to make stage coach access easier through the Fremont Pass.

This massive redwood tree has stood in Northern California for nearly 2,000 years.

The site of the house Jack Parsons made famous both in life and death.

The diverse and sometimes odd cultural heritage of the Golden State is collected, examined, and displayed in this proud museum.

An archive of nearly every day of Buckminster Fuller's life.

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

A mountain range on an active U.S. Navy base hides thousands of mysterious prehistoric rock carvings.

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

A Los Angeles cemetery that was once at the center of a Supreme Court dispute.

A classic American barn that was the home of a classic American television star.

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.

The longest burning light bulb in the world.

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

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