A performance hall at the American Jewish University moonlights as a sci-fi film location set.

A spiritual center in the Santa Monica Mountains founded by Alice Coltrane after the death of her husband and fellow jazz musician John Coltrane.

Its vast collection details the history of this Santa Barbara beach town.

An entertaining journey through the odd and strange awaits visitors to this shop.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

French prisoners carved these boats from the bones of their meat rations.

One incredible room in the Santa Barbara Courthouse is covered in wall-to-wall canvas murals.

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

A cake-themed art installation tucked away in historic Chinatown.

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

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

A California city claims to be the home of a fast-food classic.

The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.

Southern California’s Theme Park Beginnings.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

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

A newspaper building that made radio history.

Home of the "Father of Forestry."

An airy would-be solution to a housing shortage.