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

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

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.

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

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

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

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

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

"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.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

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

A quirky collection of figurines backdropped by city views is hidden next to a popular restaurant in the Hollywood hills.

A little barn in the middle of the city preserving Hollywood treasures since 1985.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

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

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

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

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

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.