This hands-on math museum believes in turning concepts into constructs.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

Lemon Grove, California is known for its giant lemon...and mummified bodies.

A macabre tour of Hollywood’s deadly history.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

A fine mixture of the old and the new topped with an art deco neon spire.

One of the largest Marian shrines on the West Coast stands rather unexpectedly in Silicon Valley.

Check out a shovel along with your Shakespeare.

What began as an illegal art installation has become a symbol for unity, ocean awareness, and coastline preservation.

Nestled in Coachella Valley, this museum transports guests from the Mesozoic Era, to the land of Egyptian kings.

This magnificent mausoleum is as much a work of art as it is a historic resting place.

Sojourn to the past at this residence teeming with 1950s memorabilia.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

Outsider art or homage to aliens?

The words of the neighborhood's most famous poets adorn four concrete walls.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

Home of what was the largest hydraulic mine in the world, producing gold and the first diamonds in the U.S.

This nonsensical smiling boat shuttles passengers between two places they could've easily walked between.