Places SamWPiano Wants to Go

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.