Places Lauren Levesque Wants to Go

This vintage car parts store is also a museum devoted to a squat little gem of automotive history.

Common all over Japan, kōbans are small community police boxes, and now one is guarding one of L.A.’s megamalls.

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

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

A 1950s Googie burger stand is now a Los Angeles landmark.

Once a meeting point for great thinkers, and the midpoint of the country.

Get up close with some alligators at this roadside farm attraction.

The road plays 30 seconds of the Marine’s Hymn when driving over the grooved pavement.

The house where a Danish physicist discovered the connection between electricity and magnetism.

Visitors are treated to a stained glass kaleidoscope interior inside this work of art.

Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

It's believed that this small church was connected to the Hagia Sophia via a secret tunnel.

This crucial gathering spot along the "hippie trail" still displays old notes between traveling beatniks and backpackers.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

This arch granting triumphal entrance into Antalya was designed to honor the emperor's visit.

Roman ruins, natural methane fires and a lovely beach.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.

This rare example of Vancouver's Victorian past was the home of one of the city's first bookbinders.

This scenic waterfront swimming pool is the longest salt water pool in North America.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.