Places duano Wants to Go

Grab a latte at the birthplace of modern American skateboarding.

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

The stone walls of a home built to withstand a California wildfire still stand after more than a century.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

Drink a Guinness under the wings of Reagan's retired Air Force One in his presidential library.

Gouged in the mountain to make stage coach access easier through the Fremont Pass.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

The former home of silent film star Harry Carry.

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

The American rainmaker and a burst dam.

Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.

A statue based on a tragic Japanese nursery rhyme, commemorating San Diego's sisterhood with Yokohama.

An ode to the friendship between four Pacific Rim countries.

This futuristic bridge is one of the longest self-anchored pedestrian bridges in the world.

The longest covered bridge west of the Mississippi River.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

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

His discovery kicked off the Gold Rush. One of the hands on this commemorative statue points to the spot where he found the precious metal.

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

This former boomtown "island" is now submerged below Folsom Lake.

This 19th century hydroelectric powerhouse was the first of its kind.

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

Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.

Generations of rockhounds got their start at this beloved, historic mine.