This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

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

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

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

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

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

Where a great scandal unfolded with a famous female revivalist at its center.

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

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

This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

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

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

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

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

Witnesses claim the Virgin Mary statue outside the church once mysteriously shed a single tear.

Ha Long Bay's "Cave of Surprises" houses a popular phallic rock formation.

The spot where the two men ate together now stands enclosed in glass.

This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.