Places monophaz Wants to Go

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

Reverend Franzo Wayne King administers spiritual enlightenment through the music of the jazz legend.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.

A retired oil tanker now offering amazing views of New York City.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

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

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

The sea once considered an ecological wasteland is now called "crown jewel of avian biodiversity" by scientists.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

A pair of disused Los Angeles electrical poles now glow with delicate windows into the past.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.