Places Lostandwandering Wants to Go

An abandoned 1930s gas station turned bustling neighborhood park.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Once a purveyor of Santeria supplies, religious products , and household sundries, now closed.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

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

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

The San Andreas Fault spectacularly offsets this creek.

From sax to spuds, get 'em all at this landmark music establishment.

Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.

This mysterious marker puzzles pedestrians and infuriates geographers.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

The last orange grove of the San Fernando Valley is owned and protected by CSU Northridge.

Originally the home of chewing gum mogul William Wrigely Jr, it is now the official offices of the Tournament of Roses.

A rare surviving example of a pre-WWII Japanese garden, restored after years of neglect.