▪ Lighthouse: OK, you aren’t actually sleeping in the historic lighthouse in Point Arena you’re in one of the lighthouse keeper’s rooms right on the jutting point of the continent, with the federally preserved Stornetta Public Lands right outside your door. Pay 30 or so bucks a night for the room, and they might even throw in a mini-concert or art installation out back. Rooms include: “The Rabbit Hole,” an “Alice in Wonderland” takeoff “Goddess Room,” aswirl with a purple and lavender Gaia mural “Cuban Gangsta Room,” all blood red and black and the “Sparkle Pony Room,” all Pepto-Bismol pink.

▪ Art Hotel: Reno, home base for many Burning Man denizens, is home to the first hotel exclusively designed by and made for so-called “Burners.” Local artists, with help from architects, have taken a scuzzy single-occupancy-room flophouse in downtown and transformed it into a swirling surreal “experience” called the Morris Burner Hotel. A pool and hot tub is a nod to modernity, but the site really does feel as if you’ve chosen to hole up in a railroad yard for the night. But what draws most visitors are the rooms fashioned out of old Southern Pacific, Santa Fe, Great Northern or Erie cabooses that encircle the tree-studded property, near Little Castle Creek and dwarfed by the jutting spires of Castle Crags. Railroad buffs cherish the chance to explore the cab of a rare 1927 Willamette Shay steam engine. ▪ Caboose: Dunsmuir’s history as a railroad town, which includes a museum at the Amtrak station and vintage boxcars placed around town as other cities would erect statues, is typified by the thoroughly retro-charming Railroad Park Resort, where you can sleep in a caboose and dine in a Pullman car. You won’t be giving up luxury: Accoutrements include two satellite TV sets, iPod docking station, fridge and microwave, central air and heating, two bathrooms and a walk-in shower. ▪ Yacht: You don’t need to pop your polo shirt collar and speak in a Thurston Howell lockjaw manner, but you do feel privileged when you stay on a 40-foot yacht anchored at Dock 5 of Rainbow Harbor in Long Beach, across the harbor from the Queen Mary and next to the Aquarium of the Pacific, near scads of restaurants and a jaunt from the trendy vintage shops on Fourth Street’s “Retro Row.” Dockside Boat & Bed rents out six yachts for overnight guests (cost range: $175-$275) but, sorry, you cannot fire up the engine and sail off to Catalina.

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