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

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

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

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

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

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

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

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

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

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

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

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

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.

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