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

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

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

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

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

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

A cake-themed art installation tucked away in historic Chinatown.

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

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

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

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."