A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

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

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

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

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

The last of its kind in the country.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

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

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."