jenneide's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

jenneide

“My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while.” Fernando Pessoa

www.dinkstravel.com

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San Francisco, California

Defenestration

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

Brea, California

Brea Redwood Grove

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

Added by cklibowitz

Martinez, California

John Muir's Giant Sequoia

A sparse, solitary sequoia still stands as a living tribute to the famous conservationist who planted it—but it's dying.

Sydney Rose

Added by Sydney Rose

Cotati, California

The Accordion Man

A tribute to one man's legacy of improving the accordion's reputation.

onoma

Palm Springs, California

Volkswagen Spider Sculpture

This giant spider sculpture made from the iconic car is one giant visual pun.

sheila42

Added by sheila42

Fish Rocks

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

kyleensrude

Added by kyleensrude

Encinitas, California

Surfing Madonna

What began as an illegal art installation has become a symbol for unity, ocean awareness, and coastline preservation.

jondi letnap

Added by jondi letnap

Silverado, California

Modjeska Shakespeare

This 75-year-old Shakespearean sculpture is painted by a local artist for every season.

Added by wishartppamela11

Corte Madera, California

Ring Mountain Petroglyphs

Across Ring Mountain is a vast collection of Native American petroglyphs unique to the region.

ckirwan

Added by ckirwan

Stevenson Ranch, California

Mentryville Park

This park is home to California's first oil boomtown, with structures that have stood for more than a century.

Added by heyripley

Mill Valley, California

B612 Foundation

Astronomers plan to launch a space telescope into orbit, to find out what exactly stands in the way of an asteroid hitting Earth.

Dylan

Oxnard, California

La Jenelle Park

Rusty pieces of metal jutting out of a breakwater are all that's visible of the 12,500-ton ocean liner that capsized just off the beach.

Added by redpessima

Stockton, California

Wat Dhammararam

Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.

Added by Wes209

Topanga, California

Great Wall of Topanga

You don't want to get caught in this trap--or do you?

Elise

Davis, California

Bats of Yolo Causeway

Each summer, the migratory bats living beneath the bypass form "batnadoes" at dusk.

Anne Ewbank

Added by Anne Ewbank

Menlo Park, California

The Great Spirit Path

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.

Lone Pine, California

Mobius Arch

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

Added by WindupMan

Culver City, California

Old Growth (New/Now)

A pair of disused Los Angeles electrical poles now glow with delicate windows into the past.

Added by Jeanie Chong

Three Rivers, California

Tharp’s Log

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

Added by cynthiaphung

Twentynine Palms, California

The Love Signs of Twentynine Palms

In California, colorful roadside signs remind us all that love transcends borders.

Added by fiberopticnow

Los Angeles, California

Metropolitan Pit Stop

This vintage car parts store is also a museum devoted to a squat little gem of automotive history.

Added by Craig Baker

Junction City, California

Chagdud Gonpa

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

Added by Miquet

Inyo County, California

Coso Rock Art District

A mountain range on an active U.S. Navy base hides thousands of mysterious prehistoric rock carvings.

Added by Rachel Gould

June Lake, California

Obsidian Dome

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.

Added by scottdfrank