The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

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

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

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

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

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

The final resting place of the man who played the Invisible Man.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

Instead of hoofing it up steep stairs, residents can hitch a ride on this private lift.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

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

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.