A Boeing mechanic and his wife leave a whimsical, stone sculptured garden as their legacy.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

The last of its kind in the country.

This Chase branch is an homage to Old Hollywood.

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.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

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.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

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.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

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

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

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

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

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

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

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

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

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

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

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

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.