Places Seabiscuit Wants to Go

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.

This lesser known Hearst estate is a fairytale village built from the stolen bones of historic European buildings.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

Oldest building in California still in use.

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

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

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

A "haunted" landmark on the coast of Southern California.

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

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."