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

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

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.

The beautiful 1920 Pantages Theatre remains hidden just underneath the LA Downtown Jewelry Exchange.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

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

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

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

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

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

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

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

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

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.