Places lelandbuck Wants to Go

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

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

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

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

This 'Murder House' grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

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

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

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

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

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.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.