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.

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

Hand-crafted tributes to a stray cat named "Room 8" now cover this LA elementary school.

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.

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

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

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

The beautiful 1920 Pantages Theatre remains hidden just underneath the LA Downtown Jewelry Exchange.

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

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

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

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

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

Once a purveyor of Santeria supplies, religious products , and household sundries, now closed.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

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.