Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Walking by this fence is like strolling along a portal to various fictional worlds.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

Mexican food and folk art.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

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

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

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

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

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

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

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

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

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

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."