In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

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

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

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

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

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.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

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

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

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

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

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