The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

Wild West history in Hollywood style.

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

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

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

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

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

Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

From Iggy Pop to David Bowie to Nick Cave, this regal music studio has served some of the all time greats.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

Puppet theater and museum holding a collection of more than 300.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.