Places Sun Wants to Go

This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.

The beautiful 1920 Pantages Theatre remains hidden just underneath the LA Downtown Jewelry Exchange.

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

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

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

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

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

An artist's vision for connectivity spans seven continents and 16 countries.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

Erroneously called the world's tallest flagpole, this landmark is devoted to "good neighborliness."