Places thisismolly Wants to Go

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

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Santa Monica's oldest restaurant, decorated with set pieces from the Mutiny on the Bounty.

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

This L.A. fixture has been serving hot dogs out of a giant hot dog since 1946.

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

A bright California graveyard with a decidedly dark side.

Taste rums made with heirloom sugarcane on the distillery's own estate.

A glass display case holds the document that ended the Second World War—which one person signed on the wrong line.

This mom-and-pop Japanese sweets shop has been serving cloud-light mochi for almost a century.

A historic fort commemorating the United States' naval history.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

Beauty and history abound in this remote West Texas canyon.

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.

An unusual bed & breakfast made of papercrete.

The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.

Formerly the world's largest, this Willy Wonka-esque contraption runs 24/7.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.