Places j3taylor Wants to Go

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

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

This mysterious and creepy location instills a strong sense of foreboding in all visitors.

A Cold War site complete with rusty structures, hiking trails, and beautiful views.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

These two monoliths have stood at the entrance to the neighborhood since the days it was called "Hollywoodland."

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate turned YouTube famous.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

Friendships have been forged over ham and eggs every Wednesday morning for a century.

The last orange grove of the San Fernando Valley is owned and protected by CSU Northridge.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.

This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.