If you have no place to go for Thanksgiving or spring break, it might be the perfect time to take a road trip, even if it’s just for a few days.

Here’s a list of popular places for road trips provided by the Road Trip America website. Even if you might not have a chance to visit these locations this year, it might be good to keep them in mind for the future.

• Planes of Fame Museum: Whether you’re interested in history or in aviator technology, the Chino Airport and the Planes of Fame Museum are a great road trip stop. While the Planes of Fame museum includes historical relics, it is also home to aircrafts from the past that still fly. The museum provides seminars and special events on the first Saturday of each month and planes from their collections are flown after each presentation. If you are interested in aviation and history, these exhibits and presentations are simply too cool to fly by.

• Little Three Mine: Adventurers will really dig this mining site, located near Ramona, Calif. Little Three Mine, referring to the three men who discovered the site in the early 1990s, is home to a variety of valuable gems, including some of the finest samples of blue topaz and orange spessartine found in North America. Besides its reputation for its fine gems, however, Little Three Mine provides a wealth of information for researchers, mineralogists and geologists. Visitors will be able to see different types of gems and crystals inside the mine as well as learn more about the history of the site.

• The Jelly Belly factory tour: Fairfield is home to the Herman Goelitz Jelly Belly factory, where many of the fruitful jellybeans are made. If Jelly Bellies are one of your favorite snacks, you might want to consider taking a tour of the factory. You will learn the history of the Herman Goelitz Candy Company, as well as the steps involved in the process of manufacturing jellybeans. After taking a tour through the Jelly Belly factory, you will have a chance to purchase Jelly Belly merchandise in the gift shop, as well as bags of “Belly Flops,” or jellybeans that are too small, large or stuck together. Going to the Jelly Belly Factory is sure to be a tasty adventure, and you will leave Fairfield with a newfound appreciation for the flavorful delicacies.

• Calico Ghost Town: It might seem like an attraction at a theme park, but Calico Ghost Town actually exists. Established in 1881, Calico was a town known for its large silver production until the price of silver plummeted in the 1890s. Calico suffered from this setback and the town officially “died” in 1907. Thanks to the enhancements of Walter Knott – the entrepreneur who founded Knott’s Berry Farm – visitors can now tour Calico Regional Park. You will see replicas of the town’s colorful past, including historic newspapers, original buildings and other mementos of the town’s glory years.

• Pasadena Playhouse: The Pasadena Playhouse is a historic theatre founded in 1917 by Gilmor Brown. The theatre was constructed around the time when talking movies began to revolutionize the entertainment industry. The Pasadena Playhouse was declared the State Theatre of California in 1937 by the California State Legislature. The theatre closed in 1969, due to a period of decline in attendance, but the city of Pasadena, with a grant from the Economic Development Agency, began a project to restore the theatre. If you take a tour of the Pasadena Playhouse, you will see that the buildings are used for their original intent: to train the next generation of performers and bring the best quality theatre to those in the Los Angeles community.

For more suggestions about possible road trip destinations, see the Road Trip America website at http://www.roadtripamerica.com/places/places.htm.