Places MoB Wants to Go

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

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

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

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

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

This park is home to California's first oil boomtown, with structures that have stood for more than a century.

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate turned YouTube famous.

A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

An homage to the man who built California's version of Venice.

Pause in an abandoned hydroelectric station, now overrun with wildlife, to consider a thought-provoking poem.

Fans line up at the crack of dawn for a slurpy bowl of deliciousness at this noodle counter inside a factory.

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.