Places Seabiscuit Wants to Go

From sax to spuds, get 'em all at this landmark music establishment.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

Antiques by the Bay.

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

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

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

The last orange grove of the San Fernando Valley is owned and protected by CSU Northridge.

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.