Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

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

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

This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

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.

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

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

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

Three sinkholes filled with warm, crystal-clear water reached by a horse-driven cart on an old train track through the jungle.

A notoriously corrupt Chief of Police's deteriorating Greek-themed playhouse.

This foreboding building was the headquarters of the terrifying Spanish Inquisition in Mexico.

A 16th-century monastery boasts a lush array of plants native to Mexico’s most biodiverse region.

A mysterious pillar in an ancient burial chamber is said to predict how long you have to live.

The ruins of an ancient pyramid built by the mysterious Chupícuaro civilization.

During its heyday, the massive estate boasted its own railroad station and post office.

A fairy garden in an old hotel hidden in La Marquesa forest.