Places yaz999 Wants to Go

The quirky salon doubles as a retro museum run by the world's leading "hairstorian."

Guarded by the Angel of Grief, the Stanford family tomb attracts an odd mix of halloween revelry and somber contemplation.

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

Experience the "opulence, grace, and grandeur of Eureka's most famous Victorian Inn."

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

The Mighty Wurlitzer organ continues to belt out the tunes at downtown El Segundo's historic home for silent and classic movies.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

An expansive and intricately restored mansion remains from over a century ago--and so do its ghosts.

The artwork that Italians felt California didn't deserve.

One man's prolific, decade-long quest to turn trash into artistic treasure.

On a quiet suburban street stands a peculiarly decorated house covered in mosaics.

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

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

Antiques by the Bay.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.