Places ziggysgirl86 Wants to Go

A classically trained chef makes beloved burritos inside a gas station.

Where the line between entertainment and aerospace blurs.

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

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

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

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

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

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

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

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

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

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

"The House That Love Built" is shying away from "The House That Ghosts Love."

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

This impressively large collection includes crackers shaped like Jimmy Carter, Mickey Mouse, and more.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

The cultural center preserves the history of the Tlingit tribe, who have lived in this Alaska village for more than 10,000 years.

One of two side-by-side totem pole parks dedicated to educating visitors on Tlingit history and culture.

The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.

America's smallest "national forest" has only 33 trees.

This junkyard made over as a theme park is the "Most Alaskan place in Alaska."