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

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."

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

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.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

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

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

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

The last of its kind in the country.

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

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

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

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.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.