Mammoth Lakes, California
Devils Postpile National Monument
Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Santa Cruz, California
Court of Mysteries
A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.
Los Angeles, California
Linda Vista Hospital
A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.
San Francisco, California
Mescaline Grove
A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.
Los Angeles, California
La Brea Tar Pits Dragonfly Fossils
These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.
San Francisco, California
Garden of Fragrance
Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.
Los Angeles, California
Philosophical Research Society
A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers
Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.
San Francisco, California
Japanese Tea Garden
Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.
San Francisco, California
‘Wood Line’
Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.
Los Angeles, California
Galco's Soda Pop Stop
Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.
Yosemite National Park, California
Horsetail Fall's Firefall
Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.
Los Angeles, California
Old Zoo Picnic Area
The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.
San Francisco, California
Albion Castle
A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.
Los Angeles, California
Bradbury Building
The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.
Los Angeles, California
Sunken City
Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.
San Francisco, California
Alcatraz Island
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
San Jose, California
The Winchester Mystery House
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Terrebonne, Oregon
Crooked River Bridges
The original span of a high bridge across the deep Crooked River Gorge has been preserved for pedestrian use.
La Pine, Oregon
Newberry Caldera
Atop an active stratovolcano, two lakes separated by a narrow strip of land.
Lakeview, Oregon
Old Perpetual Geyser
Along the Outback Scenic Byway, adjacent to hot springs, this human-made geothermal feature takes unexplained breaks.
Tygh Valley, Oregon
Sherars Falls
Members of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs still net migrating salmon in the traditional way at this cataract on the Deschutes River.
Bandon, Oregon
Face Rock
According to legend, this rock represents a young girl trapped by an evil ocean spirit.
Princeton, Oregon
Steens Mountain
With a crest near 10,000 feet, this treeless fault-block mountain in eastern Oregon provides stunning views and spectacular glacial landforms.
