A monthly street "service" of handmade puppets and live original puppets, whose devotees profess has the power to change lives.

This Chase branch is an homage to Old Hollywood.

These two monoliths have stood at the entrance to the neighborhood since the days it was called "Hollywoodland."

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

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

One incredible room in the Santa Barbara Courthouse is covered in wall-to-wall canvas murals.

This nonsensical smiling boat shuttles passengers between two places they could've easily walked between.

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.

The remains of this rugged homestead ranch offer a brief glimpse into a bygone era.

This "synagogue" is not what it seems to be.

An homage to the man who built California's version of Venice.

Common all over Japan, kōbans are small community police boxes, and now one is guarding one of L.A.’s megamalls.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

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

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

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

The American Home, Re-imagined.

Colorado Boulevard’s historic bookstore, operating since the bustling city of Pasadena was merely some orange groves and a few ostrich farms.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

Whiskey lovers, this is your happy place.