Places lokimann Wants to Go

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

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

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

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

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

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

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

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

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

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.