Places tjhoek Wants to Go

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

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

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

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

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

Malibu's first beach home features an astonishing trove of ceramic tiles.

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

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

The Southern California pop sounds of surf and sand were born right here.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

An ode to the friendship between four Pacific Rim countries.

The freeway that never was.

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

The oldest standing structure in downtown San Diego.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

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

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.