The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

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

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.

The last of its kind in the country.

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

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

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

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

"Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament."

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

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.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

Despite its lavish ornamentation, and wholesome lifestyle of its devotees, this mountain commune has faced its share of issues.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

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

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.