Places Norkey Wants to Go

The most popular attraction in Southern California was once a flock of ornery bipedal birds that pulled carts.

The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.

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

Common all over Japan, kōbans are small community police boxes, and now one is guarding one of L.A.’s megamalls.

A gift from Abbot Kinney and a little bit of piece of Black history in Venice Beach.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

"The greatest unknown literary treasure in Los Angeles."

Where a great scandal unfolded with a famous female revivalist at its center.

This "synagogue" is not what it seems to be.

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

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

A wild west scene starring life-sized wooden statues hides in the trees behind Pierce College.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

The last orange grove of the San Fernando Valley is owned and protected by CSU Northridge.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

Rare collectibles from automated musical instruments to 250 unique automobiles.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

The beautiful 1920 Pantages Theatre remains hidden just underneath the LA Downtown Jewelry Exchange.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.