Places j3taylor Wants to Go

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

This unique sanctuary invites you to interact with the beautiful birds.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

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

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

This peaceful garden is hidden on the grounds of a spiritual organization founded by a pioneer yogi.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

An ultra-modern vista that has been featured in so many films the house is a celebrity in its own right.

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 music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

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

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

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.