The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

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

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

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

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

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

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

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

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

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

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

A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.