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

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

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

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

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.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

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

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

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

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