The words of the neighborhood's most famous poets adorn four concrete walls.

Hidden in one of the skyscrapers on Bunker Hill, this museum features an 1895 stagecoach and peers into California’s gold-lined history.

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

This peaceful garden is hidden on the grounds of a spiritual organization founded by a pioneer yogi.

Pay your respects to departed pets, both celebrity and otherwise.

The decor of this Hollywood movie palace just barely predated the opening of King Tut's tomb.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

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

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

Celebrating the accomplishments of Black firefighters in Los Angeles.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

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

"The greatest unknown literary treasure in Los Angeles."

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

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.

A wild west scene starring life-sized wooden statues hides in the trees behind Pierce College.

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

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

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

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.

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