Places jillybelle66 Wants to Go

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

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

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

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

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

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

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

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

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

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

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.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.