Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

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

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

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

A little barn in the middle of the city preserving Hollywood treasures since 1985.

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

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

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

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.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

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

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

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

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.