Places LexaPayne Wants to Go

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

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

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.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

One of the most breathtaking railways in Europe also takes one of the steepest climbs, from fjord to mountain plateau.

The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.

This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

Have fun at the world's first Buddhist waterslide park.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

This 17th-century pub once had a hole in its wall so the neighboring blacksmith could easily access beer.

Drive past the giant fruit sculptures and up to the window for a menu of fruity treats.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

This unassuming tree stump reportedly traces its roots to the famous pharaoh queen's reign.

This unusual rock looks like a giant, otherworldly mushroom sprouting atop a cave.

The ruins of an abandoned church loom within a picturesque Ukranian village.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.