Places Ryshili Wants to Go

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

After a short 5 year run, this former major theme park sits in ruin.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Cambria's most unique B&B features creative surroundings and fantastic food.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

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

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

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

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

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

Monumental sculptures of Patrick Amiot, constructed from debris, detritus, and determination.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

Hand-powered race of alternative forms of transportation.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

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

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

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

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