A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

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

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

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

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

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

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

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

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

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

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

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

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.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

The final resting place of the famous Rhode Island lighthouse keeper who heroically saved dozens of people from drowning.

An ancient cemetery with some historic bodies underfoot.

A crumbling stone stable and carriage house are all that remain of a manse that was once filled with Egyptian artifacts.