Places katemonkey Wants to Go

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

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

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

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

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.

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

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

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

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

On this stunning Scottish island, you can walk in the footsteps of dinosaurs.

The stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

This captivating Bronze Age timber circle spent centuries concealed by the tides.

A wooden statue commemorates a local celebrity who became a national sensation for his height.

The phone booths in this English town have distinctly milky hues.

The final resting place of a German diplomat's beloved companion.

The turquoise-studded skull of a long-dead Aztec man sits within Mexico City’s Museum of Anthropology.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

The spot where three Protestant clergymen were burned at the stake during the reign of "Bloody Mary."

This was once a hall in which a 16th-century royal banquet was hosted by King James VI of Scotland.

An American ghost town hides along a side street in Scotland's capital.

A local museum honors the overlooked discoveries of Mary Anning, one of the first professional fossil hunters.