Because there's no place like home.

An academy where anyone can train in the exciting acrobatic sports of parkour and freerunning.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

One of the world's longest murals depicts the history of diversity in Los Angeles.

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

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

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

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

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

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

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

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

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

This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

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

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

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.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

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