Calipatria, California
Salvation Mountain
A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Calipatria, California
A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.
Bombay Beach, California
Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.
Sonora, California
Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.
Lancaster, California
Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.
Earlimart, California
A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.
Auburn, California
A dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.
San Juan Capistrano, California
Oldest building in California still in use.
Pasadena, California
A stellar example of Art & Crafts architecture, and a movie set to boot.
Los Angeles, California
An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.
Los Angeles, California
These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.
Los Angeles, California
Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.
Huntington Beach, California
This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.
Costa Mesa, California
A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.
Los Angeles, California
America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.