Places unceremony Wants to Go

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

Hidden among the multi-million dollar mansions in the Santa Cruz hills is a sanctuary for troubled birds.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.