Places ellecagey Wants to Go

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

A fashion designer's dazzling world of Japanese collectibles is hidden in a warehouse downtown.

These two monoliths have stood at the entrance to the neighborhood since the days it was called "Hollywoodland."

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

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

Where a great scandal unfolded with a famous female revivalist at its center.

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

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

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

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

One car at a time please.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

They call buildings like this "mimetic architecture," but nothing has ever mimicked the taste of Moxie.

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.

Inside this 150-year-old barn turned antique shop is a vast array of items for curios hunters.