Los Angeles, California
The African American Fire Fighter Museum
Celebrating the accomplishments of Black firefighters in Los Angeles.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Los Angeles, California
Celebrating the accomplishments of Black firefighters in Los Angeles.
Carson, California
Gnomes have their very own bonsai-landscaped settlement on a university campus.
Los Angeles, California
Wild West history in Hollywood style.
Rancho Cordova, California
This diner's a kitschy dreamland for anyone whose heart is stuck in the 1980s.
Huntington Park, California
Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.
Pasadena, California
An airy would-be solution to a housing shortage.
Los Angeles, California
From sax to spuds, get 'em all at this landmark music establishment.
Los Angeles, California
A master of deception, Harry Houdini's greatest trick may have been living in two places at once.
Mission Viejo, California
This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.
Inyo County, California
The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."
Truckee, California
Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.
San Francisco, California
A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.
Oakland, California
This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.
San Francisco, California
A monument to the love people have for their pets.
Sonoma, California
The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.
Los Angeles, California
The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.
Los Angeles, California
This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.
San Bernardino County, California
A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.
San Bernardino, California
This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.
Berkeley, California
Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.
Landers, California
Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.
San Francisco, California
A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.
San Francisco, California
Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.
Yosemite National Park, California
Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.