Places posturethecat Wants to Go

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

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

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.