Places Wsdm Wants to Go

Hand-crafted tributes to a stray cat named "Room 8" now cover this LA elementary school.

These two monoliths have stood at the entrance to the neighborhood since the days it was called "Hollywoodland."

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.

A free library to stumble across, one of many placed worldwide if you know where to look.

Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

A master of deception, Harry Houdini's greatest trick may have been living in two places at once.

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.

Because there's no place like home.

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

The house where Good Will Hunting was written is a surreal fairytale abode.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

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

A little barn in the middle of the city preserving Hollywood treasures since 1985.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.