Places SamWPiano Wants to Go

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

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

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

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

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

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

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

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

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.

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

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

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

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

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

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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.