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Los Angeles, California

Eagle Rock

The neighborhood of Eagle Rock is named after a gigantic boulder with a shadowy surprise.
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Crossroads of the World

A few iconic structures are all that remain of America’s first outdoor shopping mall.
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Brady Bunch Home

The exterior of this home was used for the hit television show, The Brady Bunch.
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Table 31 at Tam O’Shanter

Sit at the "Disney table,” where Walt and his team of "imagineers" once dined on the regular.
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The Munch Box

A 1950s Googie burger stand is now a Los Angeles landmark.
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Metropolitan Pit Stop

This vintage car parts store is also a museum devoted to a squat little gem of automotive history.
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Richfield Tower's Art Deco Doors

Though the original building has been demolished, these massive bronze doors were saved.
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Capitol Records Building Morse Code

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.
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River Under the First Bridge

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.
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Brown Derby

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.
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Toto Canine Movie Star Memorial Marker

Because there's no place like home.
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The Music Box Steps

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.
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Samuel Freeman House

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

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.
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Box Canyon

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.
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Barnsdall Art Park

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

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.
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Hollywood Tower Apartments

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

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.
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The Mar Vista Time Travel Mart

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.
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Angels Flight

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.
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La Brea Tar Pits Dragonfly Fossils

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

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

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