A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A cow in the road might subvert the flow of traffic but this one's above it all, quite literally.

Iconic Los Angeles residence famous for its 19 statues of Michelangelo's David.

Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

A wild west scene starring life-sized wooden statues hides in the trees behind Pierce College.

From sax to spuds, get 'em all at this landmark music establishment.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

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

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

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

"The Hoppiest Place in the World" holds the world’s largest collection of bunny memorabilia and is a singular testament of a couple's devotion to all things Leporidae.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

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.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

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