Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

A Tibetan Temple and Buddhist organization just off the beaten path in Northern California.

A giant can of fruit cocktail is all that remains of what was once the world's largest cannery.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

Spend a day hanging out with domesticated Russian foxes.

The tiniest tiki room in San Diego.

Gnomes have their very own bonsai-landscaped settlement on a university campus.

More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

A playing field for a popular French past time can be found tucked away in a quiet corner of Golden Gate Park.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

Where the rich wintered in Pasadena.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

This monster board rode a monster wave to break two world records.

Special tunnels built so that frogs won't be killed when crossing the highway.

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

Catch a glimpse of the elusive Peninsular bighorns right off of the desert freeway.

Deco Modern sculptures of the people of the Pacific, cast for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

This 38-year old fish became a casualty of changing trends.

The modest home of the very immodest dancer who cost a king his crown.

This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.