Places Marbles07 Wants to Go

The only standing town in the United States that early Chinese Americans built for themselves.

This historic Chinese church was relocated and revived as a museum that preserves and celebrates Chinese art, history, and culture.

This California family's ancestral melon is sold only here.

For almost 100 years, this site of peace and spirituality has existed on the California coast.

Centuries of biking history are nestled in the shadow of the birthplace of contemporary mountain biking.

Outside San Francisco lies a small clown cemetery and memorial.

After serving in World War II and picking up Apollo astronauts, this aircraft carrier has been turned into a museum overlooking the San Francisco Bay.

The stately birthplace of California's statehood.

Three plaques mark the spot where the "forgotten father of broadcasting" worked.

A fire lookout atop a glacial pinnacle is reached by climbing three vertiginous flights of stairs.

Built in 1895, this bed and breakfast was once a hospital that served an early 1900s Gold Rush boomtown.

800 apricot trees honor Silicon Valley's agricultural history.

Over a century old, this restored Victorian building is surrounded by a lush garden filled with rare palms.

An abandoned lot littered with concrete debris was once the home of the world's first female railroad president.

Don't bother sending any mail to this ghost town.

This bakery sits on the site of the Black Panther Party's first headquarters.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

From silent movie theater to rock &roll palace and beyond.

An entertaining journey through the odd and strange awaits visitors to this shop.

At night, a grove of towering redwood trees growing through the pavement block out all light from the so-called “Dark Park” of Madrone Avenue.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

The oldest structure in a beachside California city was built to serve eight students.

The oldest attraction in Disneyland is a prehistoric stump that Walt may have bought for his wife.

California's oldest existing theater building hosted an impressive cast of celebrities, including hosting Mark Twain's first lecture.