Places Ryshili Wants to Go

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

Abandoned landscape once home to "the world's largest winery."

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

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

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

An enchanting tunnel of cypress trees leads to an old morse code station still used today.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

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

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

A 1914 beaux arts auditorium that sat shuttered for 20 years, restored and reopened in 2026

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

St. Mary's Asylum was isolated and abandoned before being converted into a Bed and Breakfast.

Housed in the university planetarium, the thousand-strong collection of tiny towelettes includes a used one from the hosts of Car Talk.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.

This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

Located in a Civil War era building, this café is engrained with the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe.