The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

A fashion designer's dazzling world of Japanese collectibles is hidden in a warehouse downtown.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

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

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

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

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.

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

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

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

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

Founded by a high school teacher, this poetry magazine became a center for all things literary.