Places LeelaKit Wants to Go

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

This Chase branch is an homage to Old Hollywood.

Iconic Los Angeles residence famous for its 19 statues of Michelangelo's David.

An informal walk of fame in front of a Hollywood office building remembers a comedic great and his associates.

Murder, searching for gold, and being cut in half—the memorial statue of Daniel O. McCarthy and the Pioneers of '49

Anza led the first Spanish settlers from Mexico to Monterey, California in the 1770s.

A little barn in the middle of the city preserving Hollywood treasures since 1985.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

A quirky collection of figurines backdropped by city views is hidden next to a popular restaurant in the Hollywood hills.

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

In one Santa Monica parking lot a mushroom cloud made of chains heralds a message of peace.

Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

Perhaps the most unique of any Frank Gehry design for one simple reason: Gehry himself actually lives here.

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

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

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

A performance hall at the American Jewish University moonlights as a sci-fi film location set.

The last orange grove of the San Fernando Valley is owned and protected by CSU Northridge.

Pay your respects to departed pets, both celebrity and otherwise.