An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

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

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

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

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

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

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

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

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

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

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

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

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

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

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

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

A Belle Epoque bordello turned into a themed love hotel.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.