An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

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

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.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

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

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

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

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

Once a purveyor of Santeria supplies, religious products , and household sundries, now closed.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.