Places Robert Hemedes Wants to Go

A small medical museum with a recreated doctor's office.

A performance hall at the American Jewish University moonlights as a sci-fi film location set.

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

Perhaps the most unique of any Frank Gehry design for one simple reason: Gehry himself actually lives here.

An homage to the man who built California's version of Venice.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.

Suburban observatory was personal lab of the father of modern astrophysics.

A carousel trades in its classic horses and calliope for endangered species, native flora and fauna, and a modern soundtrack.

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

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

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