Places tkwhit02 Wants to Go

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

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

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

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

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

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

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

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

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 shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

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

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

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

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

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

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

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.