Places janepeytonjohnson Wants to Go

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

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

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

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

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

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

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

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

Beirut's thinnest building was the result of feuding brothers.

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.