Places elvislovesmandy Wants to Go

Art Deco and “Wrenaissance” mash-up, this recently restored royal residence has been home to kings and comes with secret monkey passages included.

A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."

Huge concrete structures designed as an early warning system for Britain to detect enemy aircraft.

Located close to a movie studio lot, this restaurant has a long history of star-studded patronage.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

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

A Romanesque sanctuary of calm amid the bustle of downtown Los Angeles.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

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

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

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.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

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

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.