Places tonkazee Wants to Go

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

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

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Mexican food and folk art.

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.