It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

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

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

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

A quirky collection of figurines backdropped by city views is hidden next to a popular restaurant in the Hollywood hills.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.