Places AtomicAndy Wants to Go

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

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

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.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

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

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

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

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

A commonwealth favorite in the heart of Pasadena.

Pasadena glamour turned government issue.

Fans of the spicy bright-red sauce can tour where it's made.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

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

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

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.