60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

Raised illegally, Reggie now lives at the Los Angeles Zoo after authorities spent years tracking him down.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

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

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

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

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

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

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

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

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

A carousel trades in its classic horses and calliope for endangered species, native flora and fauna, and a modern soundtrack.

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.

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.

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

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

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

The last of its kind in the country.