Places adnoid Wants to Go

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

"The Hoppiest Place in the World" holds the world’s largest collection of bunny memorabilia and is a singular testament of a couple's devotion to all things Leporidae.

Where the rich wintered in Pasadena.

This 1920s masterpiece of French Quarter architecture hides a secret tunnel used by Albert Einstein.

A living museum dedicated to the legendary woodworker and his soulful furniture.

A shockingly detailed small scale recreation of the temples of Abu Simbel.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

It's where the final scene of the beloved Tom Hanks movie was filmed.

This simple highway curve has become a comedic pilgrimage site.

A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

A giant knight, sex education, date shakes, and Jesus coexist happily in this Coachella Valley desert oasis.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

This California tree is the single source of the state's entire orange industry.

The Citrus Variety Collection at UC Riverside contains two trees of each of the 1,000+ varieties of citrus.

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

You don't have to be a diplomat to visit the so-called Camp David of the West.

Nestled in Coachella Valley, this museum transports guests from the Mesozoic Era, to the land of Egyptian kings.