Places dmochizuki Wants to Go

This informal museum is a magical trove of anonymous art collected from car boots and flea markets.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

Barbies stare from the walls, sit on the tables, and even pop out of cakes at this quirky cafe.

One of the most photographed buildings in a city known for its Modernista architecture is an abandoned squat.

An exquisite grouping of structures made from 10 tons of invasive saplings.

Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.

Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

Hidden on the seventh floor of a historic building, this Cajun spot features wall-to-wall bottles of hot sauce.

Hot Doug's "Hot Dog" Stand.

In Chicago, a pizza-enthusiast has opened a museum dedicated to the history of pizza.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

One of the smallest bookstores on the planet.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

A spiritual center in the Santa Monica Mountains founded by Alice Coltrane after the death of her husband and fellow jazz musician John Coltrane.

This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.

One of the only known surviving coconut palm trees in the entire state.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

A cool dive bar, off the beaten track.