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

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

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

This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

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.

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

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

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

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

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.

The big toe of this towering monument to a Croatian national hero is worn from years of superstitious rubbing.

Gargoyle head that brings good luck.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."

This giant wooden treehouse within a sprawling garden has its own eatery.

This restaurant was removed from the famed sister ship of the Titanic and placed within a hotel.