Places gavendaandrew Wants to Go

The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

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

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

Petroglyphs, bird watching, and a 100-year-old Ranch in one location.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

This small piece of Michigan is entirely surrounded by Ohio.

This Chase branch is an homage to Old Hollywood.

Instead of hoofing it up steep stairs, residents can hitch a ride on this private lift.

This "synagogue" is not what it seems to be.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.