Places afink Wants to Go

This 'Murder House' grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

This quaint New Jersey graveyard is an eternal resting place for thousands of beloved pets.

Dedicated to the history of the health sciences.