Places Sun Wants to Go

Perhaps the most unique of any Frank Gehry design for one simple reason: Gehry himself actually lives here.

On a quiet suburban street stands a peculiarly decorated house covered in mosaics.

Where the line between entertainment and aerospace blurs.

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

An ultra-modern vista that has been featured in so many films the house is a celebrity in its own right.

A classic American barn that was the home of a classic American television star.

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

Pay your respects to departed pets, both celebrity and otherwise.

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

Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.

A cow in the road might subvert the flow of traffic but this one's above it all, quite literally.

Giant scissors seemingly stabbed into the side of a hair salon leave no question about the vocation of the owners.

These artworks take you traveling to mythical medieval Europe, the politicized grape fields of 1960s California, and deep below sea level.

Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.

This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."