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

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

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

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

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

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

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

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.