Los Angeles, California
Reggie The Alligator
Raised illegally, Reggie now lives at the Los Angeles Zoo after authorities spent years tracking him down.
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Los Angeles, California
Fort Macarthur Museum
A historic fort commemorating the United States' naval history.
Los Angeles, California
Caioti Pizza Café
Pizza joint known for labor-inducing salad dressing.
Los Angeles, California
Room 8 the Cat Mural
Hand-crafted tributes to a stray cat named "Room 8" now cover this LA elementary school.
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles Breakfast Club
Friendships have been forged over ham and eggs every Wednesday morning for a century.
Los Angeles, California
Lookout Mountain Airforce Station
Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.
Los Angeles, California
Triforium
A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.
Los Angeles, California
Two Bit Circus Micro-Amusement Park
A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, California
Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine
This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.
Los Angeles, California
Angels Flight
Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.
Los Angeles, California
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels
Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.
Los Angeles, California
Hollywood Sign
Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.
Los Angeles, California
Galco's Soda Pop Stop
Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.
Los Angeles, California
Watts Towers
America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.
Los Angeles, California
The Munch Box
A 1950s Googie burger stand is now a Los Angeles landmark.
Los Angeles, California
Tiki-Ti
Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.
San Francisco, California
'The Allegory of California'
The first fresco Diego Rivera painted in the United States can be found in the former San Francisco Stock Exchange.
San Francisco, California
AIDS Interfaith Memorial Chapel
The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.
San Francisco, California
Site of the San Francisco Hippodrome
An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.
San Francisco, California
Arion Press and M & H Type
Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.
San Francisco, California
The Tenderloin Museum
A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.
San Francisco, California
Clarion Alley
This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.
San Francisco, California
Internet Archive Headquarters
The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.
San Francisco, California
Balmy Alley Murals
Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.
