After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

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

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

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

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

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

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

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

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

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

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

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

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

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

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.