Places skylarkmatthews Wants to Go

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

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

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

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

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.