An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

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

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

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

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

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

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

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

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.