The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

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

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

Celebrating the accomplishments of Black firefighters in Los Angeles.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

A 9 year-old boy’s elaborate cardboard arcade in his father’s used auto parts store.

A cake-themed art installation tucked away in historic Chinatown.

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

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

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

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.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

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

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

A beautiful memorial tells the story of a formerly enslaved woman whose kindness shaped a burgeoning city.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

This Taoist temple is the oldest continuously used Chinese temple in California.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

Its 27 graveyards represent the many nationalities and ethnic groups that voyaged to this wilderness in the late 19th century.

This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.