Places to Stay in California

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

The home of one of California's most important horticulturalists wilts amidst a lovely park.

Built in 1895, this bed and breakfast was once a hospital that served an early 1900s Gold Rush boomtown.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

Pasadena glamour turned government issue.