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

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

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

One of the world's largest collections of rare and magnificent bird specimens.

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

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

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

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

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

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

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

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

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

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

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.