First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

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

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

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

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

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

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

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

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

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

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

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

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

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

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

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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

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

An entire town in Haiti memorializes one man and his historic revolution.