Places Emily J Dudek Wants to Go

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

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

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

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

A bloodstain from "the wound of the transverberation of the heart."

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

This enormous censer uses a pulley system installed over 400 years ago.

An accidental trick of light casts the perfect shadow of a pilgrim of the Camino de Santiago against the cathedral wall.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

Stockholm's last remaining paternoster elevator.

The stunning interior of this Gothic church is covered in ornate gold details.

The 16th-century church has the only stained glass windows that survived the Scottish Reformation intact.

Founded in 1788, this Rhode Island institution is the oldest operating general store in America.

A hidden workshop for creating and restoring Papal mosaic masterpieces.

The bombed out remains of the old church were kept intact next to the new one, as a reminder of the futility of war.

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.

The remains of the left arm of the levitating philosopher-saint are kept in a 13th-century Neapolitan basilica.

Lord Byron's embalmed body lies within this medieval church.

This church houses the “incorrupt” body of its founding Bishop.