Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

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

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

"The Hoppiest Place in the World" holds the world’s largest collection of bunny memorabilia and is a singular testament of a couple's devotion to all things Leporidae.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

This Pringle-shaped ledge makes for the perfect photo op.

A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.