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The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

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

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

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

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

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

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

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