Places scatekat1 Wants to Go

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

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

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

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

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

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

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

This 'Murder House' grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

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