Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

One of the world's longest murals depicts the history of diversity in Los Angeles.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

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

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

This emblematic representation is said to bring the students good fortune.

Inscribed on the gate are the names of 29 figures from the University's first five centuries.

One of the first monuments dedicated to the accomplishments of the great Vice Admiral, Horatio Nelson.

Glasgow's own "tipsy" temperance monument.

Displaced highlanders would take shelter from the wet Scottish climate under the large walled bridge at Glasgow Central Station.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

Catering to broken dolls for almost 200 years, this repair shop is now a charnel house of doll parts.

An abandoned mine now resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape of derelict buildings and blood-red pools of water.

This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”