A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

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

This house turned museum chronicles the life and work of Richard Neutra.

One of Los Angeles's first murals once vibrantly depicted the dangers of United States imperialism.

The first all glass and steel residence in the United States.

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.

Pay your respects to departed pets, both celebrity and otherwise.

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

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

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

This "synagogue" is not what it seems to be.

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

A Cold War site complete with rusty structures, hiking trails, and beautiful views.

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

This peaceful garden is hidden on the grounds of a spiritual organization founded by a pioneer yogi.

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

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

A master of deception, Harry Houdini's greatest trick may have been living in two places at once.

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

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

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.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.