Places posturethecat Wants to Go

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

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.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

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

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

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

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.