Places blessthismess Wants to Go

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

Once home to over 8,000 exiled Hawaiians suffering from Hansen's Disease.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

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

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.