Pizza joint known for labor-inducing salad dressing.

This iconic neon jester is a local landmark that you might recognize from his cameos in film and television.

This vintage car parts store is also a museum devoted to a squat little gem of automotive history.

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

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

A classically trained chef makes beloved burritos inside a gas station.

These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.

Sasqu(w)atch out!

Home of what was the largest hydraulic mine in the world, producing gold and the first diamonds in the U.S.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

The oldest standing structure in downtown San Diego.

These two K-9 memorials commemorate the sister cities of Edinburgh and San Diego.

The Gaslamp District's oldest bar sports a urinal marked with a golden plaque that was allegedly used by Mick Jagger.

What once housed a private club catering to Comstock Lode elite is now considered one of the West’s most haunted spaces.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

This L.A. fixture has been serving hot dogs out of a giant hot dog since 1946.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

The exterior of this home was used for the hit television show, The Brady Bunch.

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

A 1950s Googie burger stand is now a Los Angeles landmark.

A classic American barn that was the home of a classic American television star.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.