Places tonkazee Wants to Go

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

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

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

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 turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

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

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

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

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

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

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.