Where the line between entertainment and aerospace blurs.

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

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

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

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

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

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

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

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

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

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

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

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

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

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

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

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

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

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