Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

People can't get enough of these adorable Japanese photobooths.

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

This gorgeous space is England's largest independent library outside of London.

This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.

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

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

An enchanted arts space which assumes infinite identities.

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

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

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

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Suburban observatory was personal lab of the father of modern astrophysics.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

Southern California’s Theme Park Beginnings.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

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