Places nickblossom Wants to Go

Antiques by the Bay.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

An ultra-modern vista that has been featured in so many films the house is a celebrity in its own right.

No one’s quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

A fashion designer's dazzling world of Japanese collectibles is hidden in a warehouse downtown.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.