This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

This well-traveled chess park offers scenic views of the pacific and a colorful, eclectic clientele.

This "synagogue" is not what it seems to be.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

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

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

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

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

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

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

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

This huge pile of volcanic boulders hides a stunning network of secret grottoes.

Rumored to be the famed pirate's lookout tower, this historic stone structure is now just watching for tourists.

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

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

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.