Places posturethecat Wants to Go

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

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

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

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

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

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

A 1920s home transformed into an immersive art experience, where every room is a portal to another realm.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.