Places Sun Wants to Go

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

A free library to stumble across, one of many placed worldwide if you know where to look.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

The house where Good Will Hunting was written is a surreal fairytale abode.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Rare collectibles from automated musical instruments to 250 unique automobiles.

Because there's no place like home.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.

A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

One of the world's largest collections of rare and magnificent bird specimens.

A little barn in the middle of the city preserving Hollywood treasures since 1985.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.