San Diego hotels collection

The Torrey pine grows wild in only two places: on an island off Santa Barbara, and on the sandstone bluffs of Torrey Pines, where the Pacific wind twists it. Close by, Louis Kahn built the Salk Institute in concrete and teak, around a bare travertine court crossed by a thread of water running out to the sea horizon. Balboa Park keeps its museums beneath domes of glazed tile. In June a grey ceiling covers the coast each morning until noon; it is most of the bad weather the city complains of.