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

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

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 strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

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

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

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

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

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

The haunting remains of a failed housing development can still be found behind the big box stores that were to anchor them.

A museum preserving one company’s history of preserving food.

This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.