This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

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

Though the original building has been demolished, these massive bronze doors were saved.

Pizza joint known for labor-inducing salad dressing.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

This vintage car parts store is also a museum devoted to a squat little gem of automotive history.

Hand-crafted tributes to a stray cat named "Room 8" now cover this LA elementary school.

Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.

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

Inside this clubhouse is a cinephile's paradise.

A classically trained chef makes beloved burritos inside a gas station.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.

Friendships have been forged over ham and eggs every Wednesday morning for nearly a century.

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

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

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

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

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.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

The house where Good Will Hunting was written is a surreal fairytale abode.

From sax to spuds, get 'em all at this landmark music establishment.

The beautiful 1920 Pantages Theatre remains hidden just underneath the LA Downtown Jewelry Exchange.

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