Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

From sax to spuds, get 'em all at this landmark music establishment.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

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

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

Because there's no place like home.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

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

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

In one Santa Monica parking lot a mushroom cloud made of chains heralds a message of peace.

The castle where the Marquis de Sade lived out his darkest fantasies.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.