Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

This Pringle-shaped ledge makes for the perfect photo op.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling) themed taco shop.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

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

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

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

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

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

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

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

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

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

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

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

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

This monster board rode a monster wave to break two world records.

One of the only known surviving coconut palm trees in the entire state.