Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

This house is a mosaic of tiled artwork sourced from local artists.

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

A magnificent, reportedly haunted mansion built for a composer by Spiritualists.

A mysterious monument covered in a binary code marks the heart of tech.

A non-native grove of 241 redwoods in Southern California.

This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.

This park is home to well over 100 handmade birdhouses.

This 252 step staircase offers stunning views of San Jose.

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

The San Andreas Fault spectacularly offsets this creek.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

The most historic church in Fairfax County played a role in the creation of the American Red Cross.

A small, forgotten prison cemetery marked only by a wrought-iron fence and eerie depressions left in the ground.

The Pentagon sits on a former island that was in Virginia at low tide and D.C. at high tide.

Conveniently located within binocular range of a nuclear bunker, the "summer camp" area was a painfully obvious spy house.

Once forgotten and built over, this historic Black cemetery now houses a poignant memorial.

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.

A giant time capsule not scheduled to be cored until 2040.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

This sprawling farm was once a Cold War-era hideaway for the nation's top diplomats.