A Cold War site complete with rusty structures, hiking trails, and beautiful views.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Rare collectibles from automated musical instruments to 250 unique automobiles.

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

Because there's no place like home.

One of the world's largest collections of rare and magnificent bird specimens.

A carousel trades in its classic horses and calliope for endangered species, native flora and fauna, and a modern soundtrack.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

"The Hoppiest Place in the World" holds the world’s largest collection of bunny memorabilia and is a singular testament of a couple's devotion to all things Leporidae.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

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

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

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

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

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

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.