Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

The words of the neighborhood's most famous poets adorn four concrete walls.

This peaceful garden is hidden on the grounds of a spiritual organization founded by a pioneer yogi.

Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

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

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

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

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

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

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.

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

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

A quirky collection of outsider art made from automobile parts.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

A larger-than-life statue of America's favorite sundae marks the place it was invented.

Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.