Places rsowton Wants to Go

Lemon Grove, California is known for its giant lemon...and mummified bodies.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling) themed taco shop.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

This San Diego museum is dedicated to preserving women’s historic achievements.

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

A classic American barn that was the home of a classic American television star.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.