A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

Opened as part of the New Deal, the training facility now features World War II-era structures and a pylon that once stood at the World Trade Center.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

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.

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

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

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

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

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

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

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

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

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

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 iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.