Places tonkazee Wants to Go

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

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

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

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

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

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

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

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

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

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.