The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

The mall's looks were inspired by the cowboy extras who used to meet up—and cause real trouble—at this Hollywood hub.

A few iconic structures are all that remain of America’s first outdoor shopping mall.

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

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

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

Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.

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.

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

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

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

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