The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

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

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

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

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

The neighborhood of Eagle Rock is named after a gigantic boulder with a shadowy surprise.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

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

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

Hand-crafted tributes to a stray cat named "Room 8" now cover this LA elementary school.

The famous blue house from the classic horror film "Halloween" is now a local landmark.

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

A scrap-metal sculpture recalls an infamous 19th-century camel.

This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.