Places tonkazee Wants to Go

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Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

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

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 unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

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

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

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

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

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

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

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.