Places Just Pete Wants to Go

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

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

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

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

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

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

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

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

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

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

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

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

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

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.

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

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.