A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

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

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

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

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

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

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

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

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

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

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

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

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