Places tlphillipson Wants to Go

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

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

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

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

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

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

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

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

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

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

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

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into... we can't find the words.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

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

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

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.