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Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

A macabre tour of Hollywood’s deadly history.

Hand-crafted tributes to a stray cat named "Room 8" now cover this LA elementary school.

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.

The house where Good Will Hunting was written is a surreal fairytale abode.

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

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

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

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

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

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

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

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

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

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

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

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.