Places jennybento Wants to Go

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

A master of deception, Harry Houdini's greatest trick may have been living in two places at once.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

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

Russian history in San Francisco.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

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

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

Failed state-supported institution meant to rehabilitate students with intellectual disabilities.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

This small New York museum celebrates the mountainous artwork of a Russian mystic.

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.