Places pfreckna Wants to Go

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

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

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

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

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

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

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

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

This seaside Scottish holiday rental lets you live out your bookselling dreams.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

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

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

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

A series of concentric circles represented a bold new experiment in socialist urban planning, and it notoriously difficult to get around.