The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.

This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

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

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

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

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

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

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

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

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

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

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

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

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

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

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.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

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

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.