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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

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

Giant scissors seemingly stabbed into the side of a hair salon leave no question about the vocation of the owners.

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

Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.

Raised illegally, Reggie now lives at the Los Angeles Zoo after authorities spent years tracking him down.

These two monoliths have stood at the entrance to the neighborhood since the days it was called "Hollywoodland."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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