Santa Monica, California
Pacific Park Solar Ferris Wheel
A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica Looff Hippodrome
A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”
Cerritos, California
Cerritos Sculpture Garden
A small, peaceful sculpture garden with a grim memorial to a disaster that took place a few blocks away.
Los Angeles, California
Griffith Observatory’s Tesla Coil
High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.
San Francisco, California
Ruins of the Sutro Baths
The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.
San Francisco, California
Palace of Fine Arts
The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.
San Francisco, California
Golden Gate Park Bison
San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.
San Francisco, California
Dutch Windmill
The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.
San Francisco, California
Murphy Windmill
Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.
Garden Grove, California
Christ Cathedral (Crystal Cathedral)
Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.
Anaheim, California
Brookhurst Community Park
A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.
