Places Kraken Wants to Go

This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.

This monument is dedicated to those lost on June 6, 1944, in the town with that day’s highest per-capita casualty rate.

Anna Anderson spent most of her life claiming to be the lost Romanov child Anastasia.

Memorial stone for GWAR vocalist, depicted in his iconic costume.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

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

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

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.

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

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

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

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

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

From sax to spuds, get 'em all at this landmark music establishment.

This iconic neon jester is a local landmark that you might recognize from his cameos in film and television.

This nondescript tunnel has been featured in a number of iconic movies, from “Roger Rabbit” to “Back to the Future.”

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

This iconic meat-and-three seasons every dish with ancestral cooking knowledge from South Carolina’s Lowcountry.