Places Riot Leviathan Wants to Go

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

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

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

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

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

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

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

Where the line between entertainment and aerospace blurs.

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

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

No one’s quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

An incredibly well-preserved piece of ninth-century Viking poop.

These experimental weapons brought World War II to Nebraska as well as 26 other U.S. states.

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

This statue of an obscure comic strip hero stands as a tribute to patriotic service and a cautionary tale about embracing fads.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.