Places cpmaverick Wants to Go

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

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

Machinery left over from California's once thriving mercury industry now attracts artists and explorers.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

The White House Situation Room was taken apart in 2006 and shipped to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

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

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

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

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

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

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

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

The Mighty Wurlitzer organ continues to belt out the tunes at downtown El Segundo's historic home for silent and classic movies.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

Museum dedicated to the preservation of surf culture.

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

An oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

Serving you alcohol with a side of insanity. Also, costumes!

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.