A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.

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

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.

Hand-crafted tributes to a stray cat named "Room 8" now cover this LA elementary school.

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

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

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

The beautiful 1920 Pantages Theatre remains hidden just underneath the LA Downtown Jewelry Exchange.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

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

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.

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

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

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

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

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

The last of its kind in the country.

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

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

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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.