Places ninipostman Wants to Go

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

This restaurant's marvelous musical machines include a self-playing violin.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

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

An ominous concrete cube cuts a dystopian silhouette atop this California mountain.

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

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

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

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

Named for a self-taught botanist who cataloged hundreds of native plants, this garden continues her work of preserving California plant life.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

The stately birthplace of California's statehood.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

The last remaining houses of a bygone world immortalized by John Steinbeck in his novel “Cannery Row.”

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."