Places chrissyml Wants to Go

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

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.

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

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

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

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

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

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

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

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

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

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

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

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

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

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

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