Places edmaldonado629 Wants to Go

Because there's no place like home.

Rare collectibles from automated musical instruments to 250 unique automobiles.

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

Where the line between entertainment and aerospace blurs.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

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

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

The last of its kind in the country.

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

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

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

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

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.

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.