Places scarew Wants to Go

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

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

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

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

Friendships have been forged over ham and eggs every Wednesday morning for a century.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One of Los Angeles's first murals once vibrantly depicted the dangers of United States imperialism.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

The first privately-owned space capsule to orbit and land carried a secret payload: a wheel of Le Brouère.

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

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

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

The first all glass and steel residence in the United States.

This collector's home is a constant work in progress.

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