This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

Because there's no place like home.

This collector's home is a constant work in progress.

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

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

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

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

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

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

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

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

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

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

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

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.