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

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

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

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

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

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

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

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

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

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

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

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

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.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

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

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

A community theatre in Brooklyn that brings Country to New York and New York to Country.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.