Places Johnny G Wants to Go

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

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

Two groundbreaking brothers from Pasadena.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

Whiskey lovers, this is your happy place.

A pair of disused Los Angeles electrical poles now glow with delicate windows into the past.

Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

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

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

A rare surviving example of a pre-WWII Japanese garden, restored after years of neglect.

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

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

The neighborhood of Eagle Rock is named after a gigantic boulder with a shadowy surprise.

A California city claims to be the home of a fast-food classic.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

A quirky collection of figurines backdropped by city views is hidden next to a popular restaurant in the Hollywood hills.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

The famous blue house from the classic horror film "Halloween" is now a local landmark.

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

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.