Places focusedtraveler Wants to Go

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

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

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

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

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

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

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

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

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

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

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

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.