Places sigal Wants to Go

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

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

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

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

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

Napa's oldest building is now a Mexican restaurant.

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

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

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

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

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

A Buddhist retreat built on more than 100 acres of California Redwood forest.

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

Across Ring Mountain is a vast collection of Native American petroglyphs unique to the region.

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft fragrances.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.