Places GeoJoe Wants to Go

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

One of the world's largest collections of rare and magnificent bird specimens.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

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

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

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

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

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

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

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

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

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.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

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

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

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

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.