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

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

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

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

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

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

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

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

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

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

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

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.

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

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

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

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

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

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

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

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