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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

A beautiful memorial tells the story of a formerly enslaved woman whose kindness shaped a burgeoning city.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

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

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

One of the best collections of antique printing machinery in the world.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

This collection of 80 polarizing foods aims to challenge your subjective notions of repulsion.

A 9 year-old boy’s elaborate cardboard arcade in his father’s used auto parts store.

The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

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

One of the world's largest collections of rare and magnificent bird specimens.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

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

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

Museum dedicated to the preservation of surf culture.

Inspiring Earthlings to Boldly Go.