Places Planetpinto Wants to Go

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

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

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

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

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

This New Orleans boutique and nursery specializes in rare flora, with a focus on carnivorous plants.

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.

Weighing 30,000 pounds, this monument represents Detroit's first industrial era.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

Once a bastion of its community, this gothic cathedral now stands as a haunting ruin.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet, your wish will be granted.

This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.

This hunter-gatherer architecture is believed to be the oldest religious complex known.

According to legend, this cavern holds the passage that Persephone used to travel to and from the underworld.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.