A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

This strange, small castle on the bayou has withstood the test of time and weather.

The Cathedral of Salamanca has a number of unusual carvings but none so surprising as a modern astronaut.

A calm and comfortable place to hang out with cats and kittens up for adoption.

An enchanting work of outsider art, full of whimsical sculptures and carvings.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

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

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

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

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

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

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

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

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

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

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.