Places Douglas Wants to Go

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

Masterful ceramic fountain and map of the Pacific Basin.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

This graffiti-covered bridge is the quintessential vision of a place for disillusioned youth to escape the complexities of burgeoning adulthood.

Gnomes have their very own bonsai-landscaped settlement on a university campus.

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.

Where a great scandal unfolded with a famous female revivalist at its center.

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

Museum dedicated to the preservation of surf culture.

Pay your respects to departed pets, both celebrity and otherwise.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

A huge work of Burning Man-inspired outsider art on the grounds of a California winery.

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.

The decor of this Hollywood movie palace just barely predated the opening of King Tut's tomb.

Wheels of chrome by the thousands adorn this California Historical Landmark.

San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.