Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

This cheese shop also houses a museum devoted to Dutch dairy.

Spend a day hanging out with domesticated Russian foxes.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

A remote desert lookout offers unparalleled views of the California badlands for those who brave the trek.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

This outdoor observatory offers stellar views and a scale model of our solar system.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

Pasadena’s Stonehenge.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

This 1920s masterpiece of French Quarter architecture hides a secret tunnel used by Albert Einstein.

"The Star Factory" cranked out Hollywood stars like nobody's business.

A Community Cornerstone.

The creator of the carousel's bingo-pinball hybrid survives in California's oldest gaming establishment.

The oldest home in Huntington Beach, the farmhouse is a monument to the region's pioneer past.

One of the only known surviving coconut palm trees in the entire state.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.

The storied English village that pretended to be insane inspired NYC's nickname and the fictional namesake in the DC Comics universe.

This grave marks one of few bodies retrieved from the disastrous Franklin Arctic expedition.

This ornate English estates "Prodigy House" still bears the cannonball marks of civil war.