Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

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

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

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

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

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

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

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

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

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

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

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

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

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

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.