The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Once a purveyor of Santeria supplies, religious products , and household sundries, now closed.

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

A Romanesque sanctuary of calm amid the bustle of downtown Los Angeles.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

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

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

One of Los Angeles's first murals once vibrantly depicted the dangers of United States imperialism.

A relief that wraps around the concourse of Los Angeles's World Trade Center marks one of the city's failed urban design plans.

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

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

A museum, art project, and institution that demands we look at the world around us in a strange new way.

This hands-on math museum believes in turning concepts into constructs.

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

This well-traveled chess park offers scenic views of the pacific and a colorful, eclectic clientele.

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

Once the central jail for Los Angeles, this building housed inmates like Al Capone, those arrested from the Zoot Suit and Watts Riots, and individuals imprisoned for their sexuality.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

Somewhere between an art studio and a print shop, this artists storefront is a house of worship devoted to type.

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

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