Places focusedtraveler Wants to Go

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

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

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

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

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

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

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

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

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.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

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

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

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

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

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

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

Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.

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

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.