A free library to stumble across, one of many placed worldwide if you know where to look.

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

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

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

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

Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.

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

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

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

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

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

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

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

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

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

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.