The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

Mexican food and folk art.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

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

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

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

The largest drain hole in the world.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

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

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