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

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

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

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

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

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

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

Hiroshima survivor on Riverside Drive.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

Eccentric stone cairns built on a public New York City beach.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.