Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

In one Santa Monica parking lot a mushroom cloud made of chains heralds a message of peace.

Santa Monica's oldest restaurant, decorated with set pieces from the Mutiny on the Bounty.

The diverse and sometimes odd cultural heritage of the Golden State is collected, examined, and displayed in this proud museum.

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

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

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

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.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

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

Behind legendary Meltdown Comics is a marker for an engineered musical roadway of the Tehachapi, the great road builders of Kcymaerxthaere.

The last of its kind in the country.

A little barn in the middle of the city preserving Hollywood treasures since 1985.

Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.

Hiding amid the largest camellia collection in the country lies a charming children's maze, donated by a secret admirer.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

A museum, art project, and institution that demands we look at the world around us in a strange new way.

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

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

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