Places Pengwn Wants to Go

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

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

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

Because there's no place like home.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

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

You don't want to get caught in this trap--or do you?

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

This Southern Californian Conservation Center is home to singing and howling apes.

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

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

Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

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

Hand-crafted tributes to a stray cat named "Room 8" now cover this LA elementary school.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

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