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 Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

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

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Once a purveyor of Santeria supplies, religious products , and household sundries, now closed.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

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

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

Perhaps the most unique of any Frank Gehry design for one simple reason: Gehry himself actually lives here.