A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

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

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

A monthly street "service" of handmade puppets and live original puppets, whose devotees profess has the power to change lives.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

One of the world's longest murals depicts the history of diversity in Los Angeles.

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

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

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

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.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

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

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.

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

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.