Places Calmmseas Wants to Go

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

A century-old miner's quarters turned mansion.

Archaeologists believe this panel of petroglyphs depicting descending sheep and other figures in Glen Canyon are 3,000 to 6,000 years old.

Millions of years of erosion created the feature for which this rock formation is aptly named.

A beautiful piece of history in a very remote area that allowed ranchers to move their herds.

An improbable sinkhole in the sediments flanking the Beaver Dam Mountains.

A maze-like landscape of globular rocks surrounding two Arizona lakes.

Vulture Mine was Arizona’s most productive gold mine, and instrumental to the development of Phoenix.

Four tons of weapons merge together in a memorial against violence.

This abandoned open-pit copper mine features stunning turquoise mineral pools and excellent rock-hunting opportunities.

This fireplace-turned-monument pays tribute to the assassinated U.S. president.

Hike up to this ancestral grain storage site, but don't touch.

The remains of a large pueblo village constructed by the Salado culture, who occupied the region more than 600 years ago.

This open-pit mine is now an abandoned symbol of Bisbee's copper-mining heritage.

At certain times in the fall and winter, the sunlight makes this natural sandstone arch glow.

These elusive, isolated rodents evolved into a distinct, locally iconic subspecies.