Places RaianY Wants to Go

This vintage car parts store is also a museum devoted to a squat little gem of automotive history.

Hidden in one of the skyscrapers on Bunker Hill, this museum features an 1895 stagecoach and peers into California’s gold-lined history.

A few iconic structures are all that remain of America’s first outdoor shopping mall.

A gift from Abbot Kinney and a little bit of piece of Black history in Venice Beach.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

"The greatest unknown literary treasure in Los Angeles."

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

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

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

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

The house where Good Will Hunting was written is a surreal fairytale abode.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

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

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

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

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

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.