The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

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

Wild West history in Hollywood style.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

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

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

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

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

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

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

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

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

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.