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

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

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

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

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

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.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

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

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

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

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

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

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

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

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

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

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

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