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

Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.

Hand-crafted tributes to a stray cat named "Room 8" now cover this LA elementary school.

Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

The house where Good Will Hunting was written is a surreal fairytale abode.

A quirky collection of figurines backdropped by city views is hidden next to a popular restaurant in the Hollywood hills.

Where the line between entertainment and aerospace blurs.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

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

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

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.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

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

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.