Places mary3moriarty Wants to Go

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

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

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

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into... we can't find the words.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

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

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

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

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

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

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

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

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.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

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

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

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

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.