The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

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.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

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

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

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

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

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

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

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

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

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

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

True to its name, this bouncy walkway may be the world’s smallest suspension bridge.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

Giant origami crease patterns engraved in Santa Monica intersections may even be visible from space.

Perched high atop telephone poles is an uncanny outdoor art gallery that greets passersby on their commute.