Places afink Wants to Go

Rare collectibles from automated musical instruments to 250 unique automobiles.

Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.

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.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.

The house where Good Will Hunting was written is a surreal fairytale abode.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

From sax to spuds, get 'em all at this landmark music establishment.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

"The Hoppiest Place in the World" holds the world’s largest collection of bunny memorabilia and is a singular testament of a couple's devotion to all things Leporidae.

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.