Places zydeko Wants to Go

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

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

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

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

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.