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

Inside this clubhouse is a cinephile's paradise.

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

One of the world's largest collections of rare and magnificent bird specimens.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

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

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

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

Composed of scrap metal, a pair of platform-length murals chronicle Japan’s history, from the Big Bang to the development of modern Tokyo.

Kawaii meets poisonous at this unique art gallery.

The site of Japan’s first archaeological excavation is also the birthplace of fingerprint forensics.

This water goblin statue represents a 19th-century urban legend about a haunted canal that became a Japanese idiom.

Discover the past, present, and future of packaging in this unique Japanese museum.

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

The narrowest street in Canada was once a spot for dastardly doings, now a historic piece of Chinatown.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.