In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

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

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.

This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

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

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

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

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

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