US Road Trip 18 - LA

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

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

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

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.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

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

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

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

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

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

Apartment building was once posh playground to the Hollywood elite.

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

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

A beautiful memorial tells the story of a formerly enslaved woman whose kindness shaped a burgeoning city.

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