This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

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

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

"The Hoppiest Place in the World" holds the world’s largest collection of bunny memorabilia and is a singular testament of a couple's devotion to all things Leporidae.

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.

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

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

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