San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

The house where Good Will Hunting was written is a surreal fairytale abode.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

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

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

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

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

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

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.