The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

A cake-themed art installation tucked away in historic Chinatown.

A few iconic structures are all that remain of America’s first outdoor shopping mall.

Find regional specialties from the Thai-Laotian border inside in a North Hollywood swap meet's food court.

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

A classically trained chef makes beloved burritos inside a gas station.

This peaceful garden is hidden on the grounds of a spiritual organization founded by a pioneer yogi.

Friendships have been forged over ham and eggs every Wednesday morning for nearly a century.

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

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

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

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

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

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

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

"The Hoppiest Place in the World" holds the world’s largest collection of bunny memorabilia and is a singular testament of a couple's devotion to all things Leporidae.

A fashion designer's dazzling world of Japanese collectibles is hidden in a warehouse downtown.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

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

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.