Places meltingknight Wants to Go

Malibu's first beach home features an astonishing trove of ceramic tiles.

Pasadena’s Stonehenge.

A quiet marker in memory of local men and women lost in WWI.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

The garage at the childhood home of Steve Jobs was a hangout for the founders of Apple, even if they never built computers there.

Of all the origin stories for weed's secret code, this one likely has the goods.

"The Star Factory" cranked out Hollywood stars like nobody's business.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

You don't want to get caught in this trap--or do you?

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.

These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.

A giant can of fruit cocktail is all that remains of what was once the world's largest cannery.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

In one Santa Monica parking lot a mushroom cloud made of chains heralds a message of peace.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

These four islands right offshore have waterfalls, colorful lights, fancy buildings, and a secret purpose.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

Outsider art or homage to aliens?

Special tunnels built so that frogs won't be killed when crossing the highway.