Places cocoellie111 Wants to Go

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

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

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

Inside this clubhouse is a cinephile's paradise.

This vintage car parts store is also a museum devoted to a squat little gem of automotive history.

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.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

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

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

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