Places firienfeld Wants to Go

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.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

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.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

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

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

You can get anything you want at the former site of the restaurant immortalized by Arlo Guthrie.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

This location of a Mexican chain restaurant has a unique location: an old jail.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

Beautiful natural falls where Satan once ruined a pot of beans.

Half-eaten food on display at an English café.

A secret door leads to this cozy dive that sells only “milk.”

This museum is dedicated to the most famous Irish writers in history.