Places lnadams Wants to Go

French prisoners carved these boats from the bones of their meat rations.

Get fishing gear and craft beer at this restaurant on the pier.

This futuristic bridge is one of the longest self-anchored pedestrian bridges in the world.

One man's quest for the ultimate road trip vehicle.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

A 1950s Googie burger stand is now a Los Angeles landmark.

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

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

These unusual houses look like giant boats that washed ashore on a residential street.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

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.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

The first all glass and steel residence in the United States.

Friendships have been forged over ham and eggs every Wednesday morning for a century.

What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town?

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.

These structures were inspired by both Native American shelters as well as, strangely, an ice cream shop.

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.