Places nicoleeellan Wants to Go

A Los Angeles cemetery that was once at the center of a Supreme Court dispute.

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

Blink and you may miss this rustic pioneer cemetery.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

This stately structure has been abandoned for half a century.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

A carousel trades in its classic horses and calliope for endangered species, native flora and fauna, and a modern soundtrack.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

A 50-foot tile mural mosaic for the 100-year anniversary of the Statue of Liberty.

Hidden in one of the skyscrapers on Bunker Hill, this museum features an 1895 stagecoach and peers into California’s gold-lined history.

This large collection of tiny things revels in the art of fine machinery well made.

A cabinet of curious mathematical models and old calculators.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

A towering bronze statue memorializes the founding father of postwar American conservatism.

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.

A museum and tribute to a brave profession.

Once a year, at exactly 11:11 a.m., this monument comes to life.

The massive, incredibly rare instrument is over 11 feet tall with a range so deep it goes lower than humans can hear.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.