Places MorbidLoren Wants to Go

This contorting sculpture is the tallest in San Francisco.

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

Thirteen trees representing the original thirteen colonies were planted with soil from historic Revolutionary battlefields.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

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

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

An enormous artwork that colorfully celebrates over 150 years of US military achievements.

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

A Los Angeles cemetery that was once at the center of a Supreme Court dispute.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

The rustic cabin-like decor of this Arts and Crafts-style church reflects the love of nature central to its little-known theology.