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Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

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

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

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

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

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

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

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

Because there's no place like home.

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

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

Iconic Los Angeles residence famous for its 19 statues of Michelangelo's David.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

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

The sun acts as a key that only fits this giant keyhole twice a year.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.