Places grantavery Wants to Go

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.