Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
Tor House and Hawk Tower
One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.
Los Angeles, California
This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.
Los Angeles, California
This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.
Los Angeles, California
This house turned museum chronicles the life and work of Richard Neutra.
Los Angeles, California
The first all glass and steel residence in the United States.
Pasadena, California
A stellar example of Art & Crafts architecture, and a movie set to boot.
Moab, Utah
A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.
Herriman, Utah
A replica that won't float away.
Gallatin, Missouri
A Mormon place of exile in Missouri.
Independence, Missouri
This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.
Rancho Palos Verdes, California
A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.
San Juan Capistrano, California
Oldest building in California still in use.
Garden Grove, California
Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.
Los Angeles, California
Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.
Monticello, Utah
Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.
Salt Lake City, Utah
A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.
Spanish Fork, Utah
Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.
Salamanca, Spain
The facade of this 16th-century building is decorated with carvings of 300 seashells.
Chicago, Illinois
The last masonry skyscraper ever built reveals a transitional moment in architectural history.
St. Louis, Missouri
One of the world's earliest skyscrapers.
Gerlach, Nevada
A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.