Places leighadlr Wants to Go

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

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

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

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

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

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

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

A 16th-century Andalusian palace.

Considered the birthplace of the Copper Age and Bronze Age, the river is tinted red from 5,000 years of mining.

An eerie collection of the surviving structures from a past celebration of the future.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

This former charity hospital for elderly clergy houses some of Seville’s most treasured paintings.

The world's largest wooden structure.