Colorado Springs, Colorado
Cheyenne Mountain Complex
The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Los Angeles, California
Declaration Sculpture
60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.
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
LAX Theme Building
This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.
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
Korean Bell of Friendship
This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
Los Angeles, California
Ballerina Clown
A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.
Los Angeles, California
Mel Brooks Handprint
There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.
Los Angeles, California
Binoculars Building
In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.
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
Venice of America Canals
After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.
Los Angeles, California
Angels Flight
Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.
Los Angeles, California
‘Urban Light’
Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.
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
The Magic Castle
The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.
Los Angeles, California
Hollywood Sign
Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.
Los Angeles, California
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.
Los Angeles, California
Bronson Cave
It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.
Los Angeles, California
Griffith Observatory’s Tesla Coil
High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.
Los Angeles, California
Sunken City
Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.
Los Angeles, California
Old Zoo Picnic Area
The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.
Los Angeles, California
Bradbury Building
The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.
Los Angeles, California
The Last Bookstore
This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.
