A free library to stumble across, one of many placed worldwide if you know where to look.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

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.

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

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

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

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

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

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

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.

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

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

The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.

Remarkably intact Roman stone fortifications have encircled this Spanish city for centuries.

A network of hundreds of interconnected wineries in caves hides under the town center.

The world's largest wooden structure.

One of the few remaining ancient aqueducts described by Frontinus as 'the most solemn testimony of the Empire.'

The oldest restaurant in the world is this old-world Spanish eatery, still known for its suckling pig.

Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.