Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

Find regional specialties from the Thai-Laotian border inside in a North Hollywood swap meet's food court.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

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

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

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

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

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

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

A macabre tour of Hollywood’s deadly history.

This collector's home is a constant work in progress.

Pay your respects to departed pets, both celebrity and otherwise.