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

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

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

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

"Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament."

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

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

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

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.

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

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

Despite its lavish ornamentation, and wholesome lifestyle of its devotees, this mountain commune has faced its share of issues.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

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

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.