Hidden behind a wall, Spanish nuns distribute their signature sweets on a revolving tray.

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

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

One doctor's retirement plan included opening this award-winning Mexican-Indian eatery on the ground floor of a hospital.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Made famous by cable TV, this oddball collection of antiques and collectibles is a cut above the rest.

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

A fashion designer's dazzling world of Japanese collectibles is hidden in a warehouse downtown.

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.

Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.

A "haunted" landmark on the coast of Southern California.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

The creator of the carousel's bingo-pinball hybrid survives in California's oldest gaming establishment.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.