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

Common all over Japan, kōbans are small community police boxes, and now one is guarding one of L.A.’s megamalls.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

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

Authentic gondola hanging from the ceiling, notable mural in the back room.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

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

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

Where the line between entertainment and aerospace blurs.

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.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

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

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

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

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

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.