Places onoma Wants to Go

"The Hoppiest Place in the World" holds the world’s largest collection of bunny memorabilia and is a singular testament of a couple's devotion to all things Leporidae.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

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

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

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

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

The largest drain hole in the world.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.