Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

Iconic Los Angeles residence famous for its 19 statues of Michelangelo's David.

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

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

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

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

The last of its kind in the country.

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

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

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

The exterior of this home was used for the hit television show, The Brady Bunch.

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

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

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

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

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

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

A little barn in the middle of the city preserving Hollywood treasures since 1985.