Places j3taylor Wants to Go

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

Because there's no place like home.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

Gorgeous purple flowers drape from the world's largest blossoming plant.

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

From sax to spuds, get 'em all at this landmark music establishment.

A master of deception, Harry Houdini's greatest trick may have been living in two places at once.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

No one’s quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.