Places rubysage Wants to Go

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.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

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

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

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.

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

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

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

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

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

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.