Places Riot Leviathan Wants to Go

Amateur taxidermy museum known for its large collection of white squirrels.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

This forgotten beach house built to look like a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece overlooks a hidden beach.

Where experiments are conducted on all things wood.

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

A largely forgotten and touching neoclassical marble fountain overlooking a bear mound effigy.

Hidden away in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a nearly forgotten home that Frank Lloyd Wright built for a childhood friend.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.

Celebrating the accomplishments of Black firefighters in Los Angeles.

This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

An academy where anyone can train in the exciting acrobatic sports of parkour and freerunning.

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

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

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

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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