Places Seabiscuit Wants to Go

This well-traveled chess park offers scenic views of the pacific and a colorful, eclectic clientele.

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

A museum, art project, and institution that demands we look at the world around us in a strange new way.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.

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

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

California's oldest wind harp represents a historic piece of America's Danish history.

A popular winter vacation destination for migrating monarch butterflies.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

This large collection of tiny things revels in the art of fine machinery well made.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

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