Places sigal Wants to Go

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

A mosaic map made of over 100,000 tiles depicts the geological features and sea creatures that live along this San Diego beachside community.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

This San Diego museum is dedicated to preserving women’s historic achievements.

The San Andreas Fault spectacularly offsets this creek.

This wilderness hike to a waterfall has an unlikely beginning in suburban Reno.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

The second-largest giant sequoia in the world.

A unique museum where guests can rent and operate a locomotive.

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

The viewpoint for this attractive, off-the-beaten-path waterfall is reached by a paved, wheelchair-accessible trail.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

A little-known, but surprisingly large waterfall on the Little Truckee River in the northern Sierra Nevada.

A fire lookout atop a glacial pinnacle is reached by climbing three vertiginous flights of stairs.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

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

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.