Places George Geary Wants to Go

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

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

Mexican food and folk art.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

An homage to the man who built California's version of Venice.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.

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

A carousel trades in its classic horses and calliope for endangered species, native flora and fauna, and a modern soundtrack.