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

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

One of the world's longest murals depicts the history of diversity in Los Angeles.

A quirky collection of figurines backdropped by city views is hidden next to a popular restaurant in the Hollywood hills.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

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

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

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

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

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

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

Giant scissors seemingly stabbed into the side of a hair salon leave no question about the vocation of the owners.

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

The first all glass and steel residence in the United States.

The decor of this Hollywood movie palace just barely predated the opening of King Tut's tomb.

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

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

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.