This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

Inside this clubhouse is a cinephile's paradise.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

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

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

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

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

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.

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

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

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

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

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

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

This enormous monument is one of the most iconic structures in Tokyo, rudely nicknamed "The Golden Turd."

Mythical beasts symbolizing the city of Tokyo guard a historic bridge.

A King Kong-like gorilla hangs from the top of this commercial building in Tokyo.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

Oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...