Los Angeles, California
Old Zoo Picnic Area
The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Los Angeles, California
Declaration Sculpture
60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.
Los Angeles, California
Jim Morrison Mural
Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.
Los Angeles, California
Peano's Faces of Venice Beach
The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.
Los Angeles, California
Muscle Beach
An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.
Los Angeles, California
Autry National Center
Wild West history in Hollywood style.
Los Angeles, California
Triforium
A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.
Los Angeles, California
Ballerina Clown
A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.
Los Angeles, California
Mel Brooks Handprint
There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.
Los Angeles, California
Musso and Frank Grill
This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.
Los Angeles, California
Marilyn Monroe's Crypt
Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.
Los Angeles, California
Great Wall of Los Angeles
One of the world's longest murals depicts the history of diversity in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, California
Museum of Tolerance
A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.
Los Angeles, California
La Brea Tar Pits Dragonfly Fossils
These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.
Los Angeles, California
Hollywood Sign
Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.
Los Angeles, California
Rustic Canyon's Murphy Ranch
World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.
San Luis Obispo, California
Madonna Inn
A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.
Los Angeles, California
Stay On Main Hotel
This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.
Seattle, Washington
Museum of Pop Culture
A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.
Los Angeles, California
Bronson Cave
It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.
Los Angeles, California
Angelus Temple
Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.
Los Angeles, California
Elliott Smith's Tribute Wall
Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.
Los Angeles, California
Hollywood Heritage Museum
A little barn in the middle of the city preserving Hollywood treasures since 1985.
Los Angeles, California
Venice of America Canals
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.
