Places squiddlydoo Wants to Go

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired 'Princess Mononoke.'

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

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

Founded by a high school teacher, this poetry magazine became a center for all things literary.

The silent film master's legacy commemorated in all the right and wrong places.

"Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament."

An academy where anyone can train in the exciting acrobatic sports of parkour and freerunning.

A fashion designer's dazzling world of Japanese collectibles is hidden in a warehouse downtown.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

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

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

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

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