Places Retrocat Wants to Go

A land of debatable treasure.

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

California's oldest wind harp represents a historic piece of America's Danish history.

The first attack on the continental U.S. during WWII occurred off the coast of a quiet California golf course.

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

Abandoned in 2009, this once popular resort destination now stands frozen in time.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

A mysterious and endangered parasitic herb from the California desert.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.