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

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

A free library to stumble across, one of many placed worldwide if you know where to look.

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

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

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

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.

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

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

This nonsensical smiling boat shuttles passengers between two places they could've easily walked between.

Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

An Old West film set seen in countless TV shows and movies is open for the public to explore.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.