Places rmcmacki Wants to Go

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

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

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

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

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

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

Gorgeous purple flowers drape from the world's largest blossoming plant.

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

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

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

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

This Pringle-shaped ledge makes for the perfect photo op.

"The Hoppiest Place in the World" holds the world’s largest collection of bunny memorabilia and is a singular testament of a couple's devotion to all things Leporidae.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

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

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.