Human remains in varying states of decay are strewn about this Texas State facility for scientific study.

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

"Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament."

A macabre tour of Hollywood’s deadly history.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

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

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

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

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

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

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

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

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

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

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

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

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