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.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

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

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

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

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

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

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

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

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

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

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

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

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

Witnesses claim the Virgin Mary statue outside the church once mysteriously shed a single tear.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.