Places DrJennT Wants to Go

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

No one’s quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

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

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.