Places clairebeware Wants to Go

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

Inky sludge oozes to the surface of this beach thanks to a rare natural tar seep.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

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

This collector's home is a constant work in progress.

This well-traveled chess park offers scenic views of the pacific and a colorful, eclectic clientele.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

An archive of nearly every day of Buckminster Fuller's life.

The Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

A treasure hunter's tiny bar, harboring celebrities since 1959.

Pizza joint known for labor-inducing salad dressing.

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.

Despite being a perfectly pleasant place to be, Loyalton can't seem to attract any visitors.

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.