Places nomadandwitch Wants to Go

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

This childhood throwback has hundreds of arcade games and pinball machines to transport you back in time.

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

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

One of the world's longest murals depicts the history of diversity in Los Angeles.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

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

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

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

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

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

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.