Places Tagtaylorsit Wants to Go

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

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

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

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.