A repository of Pasadena history.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

Originally the home of chewing gum mogul William Wrigely Jr, it is now the official offices of the Tournament of Roses.

Colorado Boulevard’s historic bookstore, operating since the bustling city of Pasadena was merely some orange groves and a few ostrich farms.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.

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

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

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

Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.