Places Kelly Catalfamo Wants to Go

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

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

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

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

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.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

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

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

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

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

An ever-growing collection of rare and strange objects owned by local Arkansas illusionist Maxwell Blade.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.