Places russmelissa Wants to Go

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

This 252 step staircase offers stunning views of San Jose.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.

This crumbling warehouse was once the third-largest cannery in the U.S. and the first in the world to can green asparagus.