Laguna Beach, California
Victoria Beach's Pirate Tower
This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Laguna Beach, California
This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.
Twentynine Palms, California
Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.
San Juan Capistrano, California
Oldest building in California still in use.
Palm Springs, California
An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.
Ensenada, Mexico
A 19th-century Baja cantina that many say is the birthplace of the margarita.
Palm Desert, California
A black and white painted wall creates an optical illusion in the California desert.
Fallbrook, California
Famous and forgotten figures lie beneath the faded headstones and decaying planks of wood.
Carlsbad, California
The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.
Julian, California
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.
Carlsbad, California
Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.
Tijuana, Mexico
Giant nude woman of Tijuana is also the artist's home.
San Diego, California
One of the largest trees of its kind in California.
La Push, Washington
Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.
Issaquah, Washington
A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.
Astoria, Oregon
This graveyard is the eternal home of many brave pioneers who settled the Great Northwest.
Astoria, Oregon
The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.
Copalis Crossing, Washington
This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.
Elma, Washington
From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.
Pottstown, Pennsylvania
A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.
San Diego, California
This futuristic bridge is one of the longest self-anchored pedestrian bridges in the world.
San Diego, California
A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."
San Diego, California
This San Diego museum is dedicated to preserving women’s historic achievements.
San Diego, California
Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.
San Diego, California
This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.