Places o Heyy Wants to Go

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

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

A master of deception, Harry Houdini's greatest trick may have been living in two places at once.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

From sax to spuds, get 'em all at this landmark music establishment.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

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

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

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

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

This 'Murder House' grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.