A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

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

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

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

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

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

In one Santa Monica parking lot a mushroom cloud made of chains heralds a message of peace.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

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.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.