Places ANeon Wants to Go

The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.

This Southern Californian Conservation Center is home to singing and howling apes.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

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

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

Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

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

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

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

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

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

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

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.