Places starvira Wants to Go

The diverse and sometimes odd cultural heritage of the Golden State is collected, examined, and displayed in this proud museum.

Perhaps the most unique of any Frank Gehry design for one simple reason: Gehry himself actually lives here.

A bomb shelter and some fireplaces are all that remain of the house Fred Roberts tried so hard to keep standing.

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

Malibu's first beach home features an astonishing trove of ceramic tiles.

The mysterious, untimely death of a Canned Heat band member still haunts this unfinished home.

Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

Pay your respects to departed pets, both celebrity and otherwise.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

A spiritual center in the Santa Monica Mountains founded by Alice Coltrane after the death of her husband and fellow jazz musician John Coltrane.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

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

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

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

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

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

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

Oldest building in California still in use.

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