Places katemonkey Wants to Go

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

The beautiful 1920 Pantages Theatre remains hidden just underneath the LA Downtown Jewelry Exchange.

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

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

The site of the house Jack Parsons made famous both in life and death.

The diverse and sometimes odd cultural heritage of the Golden State is collected, examined, and displayed in this proud museum.

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

This San Diego museum is dedicated to preserving women’s historic achievements.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

The American Home, Re-imagined.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.