Places Robert Hemedes Wants to Go

This collection of hand fans doubles as a history of femininity.

A dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

Experience the "opulence, grace, and grandeur of Eureka's most famous Victorian Inn."

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

An expansive and intricately restored mansion remains from over a century ago--and so do its ghosts.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

A comprehensive collection of Pez dispensers.

Russian history in San Francisco.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

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

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

"You don't need a rocket scientist to build a steam engine, but we've got one." -Museum docent on the credentials of a restoration volunteer.

Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.