Places pennylemonade Wants to Go

When California condors were hovering on the brink of extinction, this recovery program was charged with helping the birds thrive again.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

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

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

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

Odd stone and concrete monuments in the "Poet of the Sierras" eclectic folly garden.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

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

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

Traditional, pre-Hispanic food is served alongside classic favorites in this family-owned Mexican restaurant.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

This historic home has survived wars, drought, and financial woes to become a California landmark.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.

You might recognize this historic Oregon mansion from its appearance in 'The Goonies.'

According to legend, you must remain completely silent while passing this man-made mound or suffer the consequences.

The original span of a high bridge across the deep Crooked River Gorge has been preserved for pedestrian use.

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

A sparse, solitary sequoia still stands as a living tribute to the famous conservationist who planted it—but it's dying.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.