Places thepackedlife Wants to Go

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

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

Where the line between entertainment and aerospace blurs.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

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

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

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

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

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

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

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

This 'Murder House' grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

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

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.