The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

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

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

Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

A master of deception, Harry Houdini's greatest trick may have been living in two places at once.

This vintage car parts store is also a museum devoted to a squat little gem of automotive history.

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

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.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

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

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

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

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

A macabre tour of Hollywood’s deadly history.