Places nicoleeellan Wants to Go

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.

One of the largest Marian shrines on the West Coast stands rather unexpectedly in Silicon Valley.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

Subterranean house made out of a grain silo, located in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

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

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.