Places Douglas Wants to Go

Former 1954 Del Mar Train Station now serves signature cocktails and delightful culinary treats, and still operates as a Metro stop.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

A large sculptural artwork and garden in Escondido, California.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

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

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

The largest Star Wars collection in the world is its own galaxy of collectibles.

Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

Oldest building in California still in use.

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

Law-protected wreckage serves as a peculiar memorial for an almost forgotten World War II tragedy.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.