Places rbowptown Wants to Go

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

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

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

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

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

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

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

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

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

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

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

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

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

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

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

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.