Places Marbles07 Wants to Go

A macabre tour of Hollywood’s deadly history.

Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

The last of its kind in the country.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

A small research station sits at the summit of this mountain, which is one of the few U.S. peaks higher than 14,000 feet outside of the Sierra Nevada.

This California museum is home to one of the largest collections related to the 'Treasure Island' author.

At the edge of the high desert, California's second-largest natural lake is home to a unique subspecies of trout adapted to its alkaline waters.

The Yiddish language stages a renaissance in a shtetl-inspired cultural center on the San Diego coast.

The world's first disc golf course has the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a neighbor.

This hiking/biking/horse trail along an old railroad grade features trestles, tunnels, and a roadless stretch through the scenic Susan River canyon.

Take a leisurely ride on a 1906 cable car or a 1907 steam locomotive.

A vaudeville performer mounted this hollowed-out redwood log onto the chassis of a truck, and toured the country spreading a message of conservation.

Exquisite irises bloom every spring in this hillside garden.

Peek inside Howard Hughes' garage at this Hollywood-themed art installation.

In one of the hottest parts of the Mojave Desert, shallow bedrock forces the typically dry Mojave River to the surface in this canyon, providing a vital oasis for humans and wildlife.

The world's first motel is now an administrative building for an apple farm.

Eight huge lanterns lining a city street can change color on command.