The medieval castle built as headquarters for the Pope's secretive Knights Templar.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

In addition to showing films, this one-screen arthouse cinema from the late 1940s is a museum of old film equipment.

One of the smallest bookstores on the planet.

Catering to broken dolls for almost 200 years, this repair shop is now a charnel house of doll parts.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

Murder, searching for gold, and being cut in half—the memorial statue of Daniel O. McCarthy and the Pioneers of '49

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

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

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

One doctor's retirement plan included opening this award-winning Mexican-Indian eatery on the ground floor of a hospital.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

This collector's home is a constant work in progress.

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