Places lilpuddanesca Wants to Go

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

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

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

The rustic cabin-like decor of this Arts and Crafts-style church reflects the love of nature central to its little-known theology.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

This Alamo Square mansion is rumored to have hosted satanic rituals and other occult practices.

Get a taste of Chamorro cuisine, family-style, at this popular restaurant.

This antique shop specializes in the history of print and design.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

This groundbreaking 16th-century map is known as "America's birth certificate."

Within this beautiful Pittsburgh cemetery, a unique headstone bears witness to one man's eternal love for Jaws.

Long hidden under grime, the politically radical murals of a little known Yugoslavian master are finally getting their due.

What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town?