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

Pay your respects to departed pets, both celebrity and otherwise.

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

This peaceful garden is hidden on the grounds of a spiritual organization founded by a pioneer yogi.

Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.

From sax to spuds, get 'em all at this landmark music establishment.

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

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

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

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

A fashion designer's dazzling world of Japanese collectibles is hidden in a warehouse downtown.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

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

"The Hoppiest Place in the World" holds the world’s largest collection of bunny memorabilia and is a singular testament of a couple's devotion to all things Leporidae.

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

A quirky collection of figurines backdropped by city views is hidden next to a popular restaurant in the Hollywood hills.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

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

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.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.