Places yaz999 Wants to Go

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.

One of only five observatories in the world built to measure the Earth's wobble.

A working model of a pressure-driven, high-speed rail whizzes around a private vineyard.

This peaceful garden is hidden on the grounds of a spiritual organization founded by a pioneer yogi.

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

This collector's home is a constant work in progress.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

Gorgeous purple flowers drape from the world's largest blossoming plant.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

360-degree virtual reality chamber physically immerses scientists into their data.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

This giant Christ took first place in South America's religious arms race.

During this Bolivian festival/fair you can wish for wealth, success, love, and more by buying a miniature version of your desire.

The soaring gondola lines form the longest aerial cable car system in the world.