Places Oubliette Wants to Go

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

Former 1954 Del Mar Train Station now serves signature cocktails and delightful culinary treats, and still operates as a Metro stop.

Friendships have been forged over ham and eggs every Wednesday morning for a century.

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

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

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

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

The sun acts as a key that only fits this giant keyhole twice a year.

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

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

Russian history in San Francisco.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

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

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

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

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

When life gives you Prohibition, open a bar in Juárez.

Those belting out show tunes in this West Village piano bar might not realize it marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.