Places Michael Barera Wants to Go

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

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

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.