Handmade treasures from around the world.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

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

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

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

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

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

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

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

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

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

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

The last of its kind in the country.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.