Places Bartender Bea Wants to Go

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

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

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

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

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

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

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

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

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

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

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

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.

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

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

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

Curios, scientific antiques, oddities for sale.

In a small Japanese garden off a busy Denver street, a memorial to a brave, principled politician.

A focal point of in Denver’s skyline for over a century, inspired by a Venetian basilica.

An innovative local park built from an abandoned sewage treatment plant.