Places jesadair Wants to Go

Because there's no place like home.

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

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

This 'Murder House' grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

An architectural gem nestled into a promontory overlooking a prehistoric landscape.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

This tomb was fashioned with a sliding window for a grieving mother who struggled with her daughter's death.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

The "Seinfeld" diner.

Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.