Places Ivana Viani Wants to Go

Marigolds, rosemary, Madonna lilies, and the Virgin’s Bower decorate this Massachusetts sacred garden.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

A red brick monolith is all that remains of New England’s first commercial brickyard.

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

Whimsical cookie-themed plaques mark the birthplace of the Fig Newton.

The last orange grove of the San Fernando Valley is owned and protected by CSU Northridge.

This vintage car parts store is also a museum devoted to a squat little gem of automotive history.

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

Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.

Giant scissors seemingly stabbed into the side of a hair salon leave no question about the vocation of the owners.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.

This plaque is dedicated to one-half of the Magliozzi brothers and their hit radio show, 'Car Talk.'

A unique music museum housed in a historic Boston theater.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.