Places Marbles07 Wants to Go

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

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

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

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

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

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

A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.

The Hopi-style structure was built by the man who discovered Desert Hot Springs' famous mineral water.

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

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.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.

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

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.