Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

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

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

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

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

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

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

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

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

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

Iconic Los Angeles residence famous for its 19 statues of Michelangelo's David.

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

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.