A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

An academy where anyone can train in the exciting acrobatic sports of parkour and freerunning.

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

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

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

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

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

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

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

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

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

Thirteen trees representing the original thirteen colonies were planted with soil from historic Revolutionary battlefields.

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

Barely visible foundations remain where Stow Lake’s “observatory” once welcomed visitors.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.