Places starvira Wants to Go

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

These two monoliths have stood at the entrance to the neighborhood since the days it was called "Hollywoodland."

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

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

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

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

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

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 ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

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

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

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

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

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

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

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