Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

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

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

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

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

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

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

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

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

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.