Places paolascopetti Wants to Go

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.

Colorful sedimentary rock layers provide opportunities both for hiking and photography.

Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.

A small space-exploration exhibit hidden in a hotel.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

A collection of anti-communist sculptures stands watch in the Mojave Desert.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

No one’s quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

Get your footwear fixed inside a 30-foot-long shoe built by an obsessive cobbler in 1947.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

The famous blue house from the classic horror film "Halloween" is now a local landmark.

An airy would-be solution to a housing shortage.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

Suburban observatory was personal lab of the father of modern astrophysics.

A stunning modern interpretation of a Roman temple.

This 1920s masterpiece of French Quarter architecture hides a secret tunnel used by Albert Einstein.

A Community Cornerstone.

A newspaper building that made radio history.