Places szu Wants to Go

Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

Collection of scores of race cars from the 1900s to recent lovingly maintained and displayed.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

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.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

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

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

After decades of neglect, a brutalist icon is getting new life as an eco-friendly hotel.

A quirky assortment of musical marvels from around the world.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

P-town goes wild for the malassadas at this 87-year-old institution.

Home to a dizzying array of letterpress blocks with a rich history.

Long-forgotten artifacts give incredible insight into New York's most glamorous hotel.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

An underwater city for the dead.