A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

The words of the neighborhood's most famous poets adorn four concrete walls.

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.

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

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

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

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

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

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

Made famous by cable TV, this oddball collection of antiques and collectibles is a cut above the rest.

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

One of the best collections of antique printing machinery in the world.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

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

The Mighty Wurlitzer organ continues to belt out the tunes at downtown El Segundo's historic home for silent and classic movies.

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

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.