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

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

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

Common all over Japan, kōbans are small community police boxes, and now one is guarding one of L.A.’s megamalls.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

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

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

A historic fort commemorating the United States' naval history.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

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

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

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

Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.

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.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

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

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.