Places stephbrody31 Wants to Go

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

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

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

The house where Good Will Hunting was written is a surreal fairytale abode.

Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

Mexican food and folk art.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

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

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.