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

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

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

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

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

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

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

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

Got apples?

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.