Places Kay Morris Wants to Go

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

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

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

An artist's suburban abode looks like an architectural fever dream.

Colorful, cheeky signs spill out of legendary New Orleans folk artist Dr. Bob's Bywater studio warning you to "Be Nice—Or Leave."

This house covered in small stones was the work of one man over the course of nearly 30 years.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

A wealth of seafaring history displayed on the California coast.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

The finest example of Gothic Queen Anne Architecture in the U.S. was built out of rivalry and spite.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.

"The greatest unknown literary treasure in Los Angeles."