Places jobosound Wants to Go

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

Anyone can control this glittery light installation with just a phone call.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

A charming easy-to-miss sculpture garden filled with whimsical and thought-provoking metal sculptures.

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

A mountain range on an active U.S. Navy base hides thousands of mysterious prehistoric rock carvings.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

A magnificent, reportedly haunted mansion built for a composer by Spiritualists.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

Traversing these canyons, visitors can take in stunning views and glimpses of the region's history.