Places Rangefindergeneral Wants to Go

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

The oldest home in Huntington Beach, the farmhouse is a monument to the region's pioneer past.

One of the only known surviving coconut palm trees in the entire state.

This park is home to well over 100 handmade birdhouses.

This mysterious and creepy location instills a strong sense of foreboding in all visitors.

Delve into a wealth of oddities, antiques, and taxidermy treasures.

Opened as part of the New Deal, the training facility now features World War II-era structures and a pylon that once stood at the World Trade Center.

A relief that wraps around the concourse of Los Angeles's World Trade Center marks one of the city's failed urban design plans.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

A beautiful memorial tells the story of a formerly enslaved woman whose kindness shaped a burgeoning city.

A museum dedicated to restoring vintage aircraft, located at a working airport.

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

This museum honors the first Spanish land grant in California which is still in the hands of the original owner's family.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

Oldest building in California still in use.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

This dam in the woods, built by Henry Ford with only manpower and oxen, holds no water and serves no purpose.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.