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

On a quiet suburban street stands a peculiarly decorated house covered in mosaics.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

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

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

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

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

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

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

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

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

Apartment building was once posh playground to the Hollywood elite.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

A black and white mural stands out from its psychedelic surroundings.

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.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.