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

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

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

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

The last of its kind in the country.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

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

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

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

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.