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

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

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

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

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.

The last orange grove of the San Fernando Valley is owned and protected by CSU Northridge.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

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

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

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

The house where Good Will Hunting was written is a surreal fairytale abode.

A carousel trades in its classic horses and calliope for endangered species, native flora and fauna, and a modern soundtrack.

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

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

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

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

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

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

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

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

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.