"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

"The Star Factory" cranked out Hollywood stars like nobody's business.

The artwork that Italians felt California didn't deserve.

Whiskey lovers, this is your happy place.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

A monthly street "service" of handmade puppets and live original puppets, whose devotees profess has the power to change lives.

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

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

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

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

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.