Places zoomazoom2 Wants to Go

A palatial art deco restroom.

One of the coolest murals in Minneapolis.

The Real LegoLand.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

The basement bowling alley of this St. Paul dive bar is decorated with thousands of dollar bills.

This 85-year-old fireplace in an urban woodland is dedicated to a poet who recognized the beauty of a tree.

An underappreciated sculpture garden just a few blocks from the capitol building.

This French Canadian classic is a specialty of the oldest continually used church in Minneapolis.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

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

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

An informal walk of fame in front of a Hollywood office building remembers a comedic great and his associates.

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

Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Giant scissors seemingly stabbed into the side of a hair salon leave no question about the vocation of the owners.