Places tonak77 Wants to Go

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

Where decommissioned airplanes and helicopters go to become part of Hollywood.

Mexican food and folk art.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

A museum dedicated to restoring vintage aircraft, located at a working airport.

A bomb shelter and some fireplaces are all that remain of the house Fred Roberts tried so hard to keep standing.

A small medical museum with a recreated doctor's office.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

A non-native grove of 241 redwoods in Southern California.

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

You don't want to get caught in this trap--or do you?

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

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

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

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

The diverse and sometimes odd cultural heritage of the Golden State is collected, examined, and displayed in this proud museum.

Find regional specialties from the Thai-Laotian border inside in a North Hollywood swap meet's food court.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.