Places to Stay

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

Where a great scandal unfolded with a famous female revivalist at its center.

Queen Anne style apartment house built in 1886.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

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

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

Gigantic Romanian salt mines used to heal respiratory conditions.

Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.

One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.

Hotel designed by indie graphics artists.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

A 15th-century house single-handedly disassembled then reassembled bit by bit 100 miles away.

Location of the Real World's disastrous, and protested, eleventh season.

The ruin of a Japanese love hotel almost completely overgrown with brambles.

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.