This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

Raised illegally, Reggie now lives at the Los Angeles Zoo after authorities spent years tracking him down.

Wild West history in Hollywood style.

This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.

A wild west scene starring life-sized wooden statues hides in the trees behind Pierce College.

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

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

Friendships have been forged over ham and eggs every Wednesday morning for nearly a century.

A fashion designer's dazzling world of Japanese collectibles is hidden in a warehouse downtown.

The house where Good Will Hunting was written is a surreal fairytale abode.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

"The Hoppiest Place in the World" holds the world’s largest collection of bunny memorabilia and is a singular testament of a couple's devotion to all things Leporidae.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

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

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

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

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

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

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.