Although he donated over 3,000 acres to Los Angles, Griffith's life was marred by controversy.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

A stellar example of Art & Crafts architecture, and a movie set to boot.

Some of the most unusual (and in some cases, disgusting) flavors of soda imaginable.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

Delve into a wealth of oddities, antiques, and taxidermy treasures.

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

The first privately-owned space capsule to orbit and land carried a secret payload: a wheel of Le Brouère.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

The White House Situation Room was taken apart in 2006 and shipped to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

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

This iconic neon jester is a local landmark that you might recognize from his cameos in film and television.

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

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

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

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

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

The last of its kind in the country.

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