World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

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

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

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

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

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.

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

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

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

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

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

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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.