Places tonkazee Wants to Go

Despite being a perfectly pleasant place to be, Loyalton can't seem to attract any visitors.

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

Historic home to one of the most famous women pioneers of the 19th century.

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

A statue commemorating the heroic life of a Viking postman who was the Godfather of California skiing.

California's oldest existing theater building hosted an impressive cast of celebrities, including hosting Mark Twain's first lecture.

This fully intact Neoclassical-Greek Revival style firehouse operated until 1938.

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

Downieville's largest Gold Rush structure still standing has one of the longest bars in California.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

"You don't need a rocket scientist to build a steam engine, but we've got one." -Museum docent on the credentials of a restoration volunteer.

This former boomtown "island" is now submerged below Folsom Lake.

A sparse, solitary sequoia still stands as a living tribute to the famous conservationist who planted it—but it's dying.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Abandoned landscape once home to "the world's largest winery."

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.