Places fowlerfotographic Wants to Go

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

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

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

The American Home, Re-imagined.

Where the rich wintered in Pasadena.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

A Tibetan Temple and Buddhist organization just off the beaten path in Northern California.

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

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

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

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

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

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

The beloved dining spot stands at the cross-section of Hollywood and the Old West.

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

Experience the "opulence, grace, and grandeur of Eureka's most famous Victorian Inn."

A rare surviving example of a pre-WWII Japanese garden, restored after years of neglect.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.