In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.

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

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

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

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

A monthly street "service" of handmade puppets and live original puppets, whose devotees profess has the power to change lives.

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

A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.

Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.

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

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

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

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.