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

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

Instead of hoofing it up steep stairs, residents can hitch a ride on this private lift.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

These two monoliths have stood at the entrance to the neighborhood since the days it was called "Hollywoodland."

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

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.

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

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

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

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

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

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

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

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

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

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

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

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.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

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

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.