Places teddrake Wants to Go

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

The first fresco Diego Rivera painted in the United States can be found in the former San Francisco Stock Exchange.

In one Santa Monica parking lot a mushroom cloud made of chains heralds a message of peace.

Giant origami crease patterns engraved in Santa Monica intersections may even be visible from space.

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

A museum, art project, and institution that demands we look at the world around us in a strange new way.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

The final resting place of one of Hollywood’s most prolific and talented actors is on the grounds of a California Mission.

Nestled among the artifacts of the National Crafts Museum, this hidden gem offers hard-to-find regional foods from all over India.

India’s only Brain Museum displays over 200 fascinating ways that your brain might kill you.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

The most popular attraction in Southern California was once a flock of ornery bipedal birds that pulled carts.

This 38-year old fish became a casualty of changing trends.

A relic from a forgotten bakery chain still spins atop a diner.

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

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.