Places j3taylor Wants to Go

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

One doctor's retirement plan included opening this award-winning Mexican-Indian eatery on the ground floor of a hospital.

Hidden beneath a lake for decades, this brutalist mine has now emerged from beneath the receding waters.

In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.

The exterior of this home was used for the hit television show, The Brady Bunch.

A lovely summer day by the sea becomes a nightmare.

Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.

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

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

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

Find regional specialties from the Thai-Laotian border inside in a North Hollywood swap meet's food court.

A historic fort commemorating the United States' naval history.

Common all over Japan, kōbans are small community police boxes, and now one is guarding one of L.A.’s megamalls.

Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.

Southern California’s Theme Park Beginnings.

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

Fans of the spicy bright-red sauce can tour where it's made.

Wild West history in Hollywood style.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

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

This mysterious petroglyph evokes the ancient swastika symbol but was later vandalized with the more troublesome Nazi one.

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

A beautiful memorial tells the story of a formerly enslaved woman whose kindness shaped a burgeoning city.