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

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

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

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

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Meant for a railway that was never built because of the Great Chicago Fire, these piers still stand nearly 150 years after they were installed.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

Old car parts and assorted materials get turned into one man's mechanical treasures on the side streets of Cleveland.

Neal Cassady may still have an open tab at one of Denver’s oldest watering holes.

A Rocky Mountain city provides a happy ending for a pinto pony and his Brobdingnagian red chair.

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

To honor his gardening wife, this yard artist turns bowling balls into playful, colorful sculptures.

A former chicken restaurant that doubled as a speakeasy is now a quirky home full of wonderfully strange traditions.

It reportedly took three years to sort through all the objects in this eclectic lifelong collection.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

This 1930s-era Route 66 Tulsa landmark was moved, restored, and filled with neon.

Standing at 21-feet tall, this space cowboy adds to the legacy of Route 66's muffler men.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

Sid Vicious famously punched a hole in the wall of this iconic music venue.

A museum packed with instruments, lyrics, and other mementos of the American folk icon.

A Route 66 filling station that was designed to resemble the Hagia Sophia, and is now the symbol of an arts district.

This massive Art Deco-inspired mural was the world's largest augmented reality artwork at the time of its completion.