Kitschy horror displays now fill the house where some very real serial killing took place.

Peaceful gardens hide an underground torture museum.

A flooded Mexican cave that hides a river beneath the water.

An ancient system of freshwater caves filled with animal bones, including that of species long-extinct.

A Mexican Romeo-and-Juliet-esque legend has given this super-narrow alleyway a reputation for romance.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

A quirky collection of figurines backdropped by city views is hidden next to a popular restaurant in the Hollywood hills.

A little barn in the middle of the city preserving Hollywood treasures since 1985.

Instead of hoofing it up steep stairs, residents can hitch a ride on this private lift.

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

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

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

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

A black and white painted wall creates an optical illusion in the California desert.

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

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.