This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

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

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

The last of its kind in the country.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

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

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

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

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.