Places Sternenfeuer Wants to Go

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

This 15-story mural celebrates the 50th anniversary of the musician's iconic "At Folsom Prison" album.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

A wealth of seafaring history displayed on the California coast.

Home to a forest of whimsical pygmy Coast live oak.

This restaurant features Native American foods from across the country.

A quiet marker in memory of local men and women lost in WWI.

This mysterious petroglyph evokes the ancient swastika symbol but was later vandalized with the more troublesome Nazi one.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

An inconspicuous suburban street corner is the site of San Diego's worst air disaster.

This San Diego museum is dedicated to preserving women’s historic achievements.

These two K-9 memorials commemorate the sister cities of Edinburgh and San Diego.

A rare surviving example of a pre-WWII Japanese garden, restored after years of neglect.

Hilltop monument to the victory of a new nation in the Franco-Prussian War.

Traces of General Patton’s Mojave Desert training camps for the North Africa campaign.

An eerie fountain commemorating the death of a boy that sparked a small war in the 19th century.

A remnant of the Franco-Prussian War, lodged in the city's walls.

A remote one-room schoolhouse on Catalina Island, once a lifeline for local children, now abandoned.

Built from one couple’s vast personal collection, this free museum showcases a century’s worth of state-sponsored agitprop.

Of all the origin stories for weed's secret code, this one likely has the goods.

A 10,000-square-foot museum of operating model trains.

Where a staggering 747 ships were constructed during World War II.