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

The largest drain hole in the world.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

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

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

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

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

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

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

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

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.