Places midnightbex Wants to Go

Tucked away amongst townhomes lies a restored, early 20th-century tea house and garden, the only remains of a historic estate.

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Home to the world's oldest wooden building.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

The most southern point you can drive to in the Western Hemisphere.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

A preserved stretch of ancient fossilized trees with an impressive gem collection to boot.

These strikingly colorful paintings were created by a mysterious Mesoamerican civilization.

One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

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

Colorado Boulevard’s historic bookstore, operating since the bustling city of Pasadena was merely some orange groves and a few ostrich farms.

A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

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.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.