Los Angeles, California
LAX Theme Building
This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Beverly Hills, California
Beverly Hills Bermuda Triangle
One of the richest places in the United States has a cursed street.
Inglewood, California
Randy's Donuts
A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.
Beverly Hills, California
Union 76 Gas Station
The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.
Pasadena, California
Rose Bowl
Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.
Pasadena, California
Colorado Street Bridge
A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.
Los Angeles, California
Travel Town Museum
A miniature train theme park, free to the public, laying at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains.
Los Angeles, California
Watts Towers
America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.
Pasadena, California
Fork in the Road
A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.
Los Angeles, California
Hollywood Sign
Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles Zoo Botanical Gardens
The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.
Los Angeles, California
The Magic Castle
The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.
Los Angeles, California
The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.
Los Angeles, California
La Brea Tar Pits Dragonfly Fossils
These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.
Los Angeles, California
Pink's Hot Dogs
World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.
Los Angeles, California
Mt. Hollywood Tunnel
This nondescript tunnel has been featured in a number of iconic movies, from “Roger Rabbit” to “Back to the Future.”
Los Angeles, California
Capitol Records Building Morse Code
The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.
Los Angeles, California
Griffith Observatory’s Tesla Coil
High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.
Glendale, California
Forest Lawn Cemetery
An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.
Los Angeles, California
Space Shuttle Endeavour
The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.
Los Angeles, California
Brown Derby
Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.
Los Angeles, California
River Under the First Bridge
An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.
Los Angeles, California
The Bonaventure Hotel
The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.
Los Angeles, California
Millennium Biltmore Hotel
This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.
