Places AmyKay Wants to Go

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

A beautiful memorial tells the story of a formerly enslaved woman whose kindness shaped a burgeoning city.

Celebrating the accomplishments of Black firefighters in Los Angeles.

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

Inside this library, the history of Los Angeles is retold through a mural.

Though the original building has been demolished, these massive bronze doors were saved.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

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

Located close to a movie studio lot, this restaurant has a long history of star-studded patronage.

Santa Monica's oldest restaurant, decorated with set pieces from the Mutiny on the Bounty.

This L.A. fixture has been serving hot dogs out of a giant hot dog since 1946.

"The greatest unknown literary treasure in Los Angeles."

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.