Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

A Tibetan Temple and Buddhist organization just off the beaten path in Northern California.

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

This San Diego museum is dedicated to preserving women’s historic achievements.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Over one million bird-related artifacts await.

A huge collection of rocks, gems, and crystals.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.

Machinery left over from California's once thriving mercury industry now attracts artists and explorers.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

The mysterious, untimely death of a Canned Heat band member still haunts this unfinished home.

This futuristic bridge is one of the longest self-anchored pedestrian bridges in the world.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

The freeway that never was.

A B-17 bomber stands as a memorial to the residents of Tulare County who served in World War II.

A huge work of Burning Man-inspired outsider art on the grounds of a California winery.

Fans of the spicy bright-red sauce can tour where it's made.

This collection of hand fans doubles as a history of femininity.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.