Places bauke Wants to Go

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

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

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

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869.

A tiny collection of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, open only when the owner feels like it.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

This adorable birdlike police box is designed based on a play on words.

Transport yourself to the 1980s era of video games at this themed restaurant and bar.

The world's largest drain sits below the city of Kasukabe, Japan.

This sawtooth mountain range still bears the strangely lovely marks of its history as a medieval quarry.