The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.

A rare surviving example of a pre-WWII Japanese garden, restored after years of neglect.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

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

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

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

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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

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

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

The world's largest rotating world.