Places nicoleeellan Wants to Go

This magnificent mausoleum is as much a work of art as it is a historic resting place.

This California estate was either haunted by ghosts or the Marx brothers.

"The greatest unknown literary treasure in Los Angeles."

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

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

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

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

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

A repository of Pasadena history.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

The artwork that Italians felt California didn't deserve.

The American Home, Re-imagined.

Some of the most unusual (and in some cases, disgusting) flavors of soda imaginable.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

Political debates in a fabulous Pasadena castle.

Southern California’s Theme Park Beginnings.

A Community Cornerstone.

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

The site of the house Jack Parsons made famous both in life and death.

A historic fort commemorating the United States' naval history.

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

The smallest Mexican land grant in California was given, and then taken from, a 19th-century teacher and nurse.