Places Tizzy Wants to Go

The artwork that Italians felt California didn't deserve.

A rare surviving example of a pre-WWII Japanese garden, restored after years of neglect.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

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

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

Fans of the spicy bright-red sauce can tour where it's made.

The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.

Explore an early California pioneer's rancho hidden in LA's manufacturing hinterland.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

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

This hands-on math museum believes in turning concepts into constructs.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

Built by one man in the '20s, this site is now a museum representing the Great Basin cultures.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

Pasadena glamour turned government issue.

This magnificent mausoleum is as much a work of art as it is a historic resting place.

Gleaming self-built castle towers made from beer cans and inspired by "Vitamin Mary Jane."

Where the rich wintered in Pasadena.

Political debates in a fabulous Pasadena castle.

This 1920s masterpiece of French Quarter architecture hides a secret tunnel used by Albert Einstein.

An airy would-be solution to a housing shortage.