Places andrewmiddletontrc Wants to Go

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

The largest Star Wars collection in the world is its own galaxy of collectibles.

Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

A huge collection of rocks, gems, and crystals.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.