Chatsworth, California
LA-88 Nike Missile Site
Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Chatsworth, California
Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.
Los Angeles, California
A carousel trades in its classic horses and calliope for endangered species, native flora and fauna, and a modern soundtrack.
Los Angeles, California
The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.
Los Angeles, California
The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.
Los Angeles, California
Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.
Los Angeles, California
A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, California
Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.
Los Angeles, California
It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.
The Colony, Texas
A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.
Los Angeles, California
Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.
San Antonio, Texas
The 40-foot-tall votive candle is the largest of its kind.
Twentynine Palms, California
The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.
Los Angeles, California
Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.
Los Angeles, California
The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.
Los Angeles, California
During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, California
Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.
Goodsprings, Nevada
The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.
San Bernardino County, California
The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.
Barstow, California
Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.
San Bernardino, California
Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.
Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.
Key West, Florida
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
New York, New York
The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.
London, England
Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.