Places jesadair Wants to Go

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

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

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

This San Diego museum is dedicated to preserving women’s historic achievements.

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

A "haunted" landmark on the coast of Southern California.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

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.

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

Barely visible foundations remain where Stow Lake’s “observatory” once welcomed visitors.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

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

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

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

Rare collectibles from automated musical instruments to 250 unique automobiles.

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.