This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

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

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

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

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

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

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.