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

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Once a purveyor of Santeria supplies, religious products , and household sundries, now closed.

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

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.

A stellar example of Art & Crafts architecture, and a movie set to boot.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

Hiding amid the largest camellia collection in the country lies a charming children's maze, donated by a secret admirer.

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.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

One of the world's longest murals depicts the history of diversity in Los Angeles.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

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 modern day curiosity cabinet.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

A hobby born from insomnia has turned into a hangar full of objects that have been be-buttoned by the Button King.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.