Places wherearewedude Wants to Go

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

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

Malibu's first beach home features an astonishing trove of ceramic tiles.

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

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

This house turned museum chronicles the life and work of Richard Neutra.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Once the central jail for Los Angeles, this building housed inmates like Al Capone, those arrested from the Zoot Suit and Watts Riots, and individuals imprisoned for their sexuality.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

This peaceful garden is hidden on the grounds of a spiritual organization founded by a pioneer yogi.

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

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

The Gaslamp District's oldest bar sports a urinal marked with a golden plaque that was allegedly used by Mick Jagger.

Get fishing gear and craft beer at this restaurant on the pier.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

Collect holy water from a Bronx grotto.

At this site, two historic stone bridges spanning the Sing Sing Kill—one right on top of the other.

Historic home of a Black veteran of the American Revolution and one of the earliest civil rights activists in the United States.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

Above the door of a house, a plaque claims to commemorate the future living place of the inventor of time travel.

Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.