Places chrissyml Wants to Go

Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

Inside this clubhouse is a cinephile's paradise.

These two monoliths have stood at the entrance to the neighborhood since the days it was called "Hollywoodland."

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.

This peaceful garden is hidden on the grounds of a spiritual organization founded by a pioneer yogi.

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.

Friendships have been forged over ham and eggs every Wednesday morning for a century.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

The last orange grove of the San Fernando Valley is owned and protected by CSU Northridge.

An academy where anyone can train in the exciting acrobatic sports of parkour and freerunning.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Rare collectibles from automated musical instruments to 250 unique automobiles.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

From sax to spuds, get 'em all at this landmark music establishment.