Behind legendary Meltdown Comics is a marker for an engineered musical roadway of the Tehachapi, the great road builders of Kcymaerxthaere.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

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.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

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

Wild West history in Hollywood style.

This well-traveled chess park offers scenic views of the pacific and a colorful, eclectic clientele.

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

"Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament."

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

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.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.

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

A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.

A carousel trades in its classic horses and calliope for endangered species, native flora and fauna, and a modern soundtrack.

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

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

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

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

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 faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

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