Places wheninroam Wants to Go

Mexican food and folk art.

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.

This strangely vacant Western amusement seems to be an empty tribute to residents of Lucerne Valley.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

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

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.

This temple, built by an eccentric religious leader before his death, sits guarded and in ruins.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.

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

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

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

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

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

The last of its kind in the country.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

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

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."