Places tomasznowicki187 Wants to Go

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

Once the central jail for Los Angeles, this building housed inmates like Al Capone, those arrested from the Zoot Suit and Watts Riots, and individuals imprisoned for their sexuality.

A mountain range on an active U.S. Navy base hides thousands of mysterious prehistoric rock carvings.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.

On a quiet suburban street stands a peculiarly decorated house covered in mosaics.

The quirky salon doubles as a retro museum run by the world's leading "hairstorian."

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

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

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

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

Reverend Franzo Wayne King administers spiritual enlightenment through the music of the jazz legend.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

A popular winter vacation destination for migrating monarch butterflies.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

Law-protected wreckage serves as a peculiar memorial for an almost forgotten World War II tragedy.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.