Places mellauri Wants to Go

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

The secluded site of a 1943 plane crash and amazing rescue is only accessible by hiking through the woods.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

The remains of a former logging boom town, crumbled away in the forest.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

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

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

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

An oddity shop filled with loads of bones, skulls, crafting materials, vintage taxidermy, and more.

Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.

This iconic neon jester is a local landmark that you might recognize from his cameos in film and television.

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.