Hakka-style teahouse where everybody grinds their own tea.

Waste incinerator with a restaurant on its chimney.

A small alleyway lined with locally drawn scenes of nostalgic anime and cartoon characters.

A secret passageway from World War II is now a quirky pedestrian shortcut.

Life-size animals and furniture made entirely from cardboard fill this odd paper-themed restaurant.

Paiwanese restaurant run by native indigenous Taiwanese singer songwriter, and home to a DIY arts-and-crafts folk garden.

A nostalgic restaurant evokes life in Taiwan from the 1940s to the 1970s.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

Looking for a crappy restaurant? Pull up a porcelain bowl and enjoy your meal.

The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.

Once a prosperous mining village, this tiny Taiwanese town is now overrun with cute cats.

Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.

Flowers have mysteriously appeared on her effigy every day for the last 150 years.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

Where the line between entertainment and aerospace blurs.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

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.

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