Places msfortune Wants to Go

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

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

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

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

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

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

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

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

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

This mom-and-pop Japanese sweets shop has been serving cloud-light mochi for almost a century.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

A collection of huge Pre-Colombian structures in Alabama.

Come for the boats, stay to explore the intriguing assortment of art.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."