Places nikisb Wants to Go

This San Diego museum is dedicated to preserving women’s historic achievements.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

Because there's no place like home.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

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

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.