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

A treasure hunter's tiny bar, harboring celebrities since 1959.

In one Santa Monica parking lot a mushroom cloud made of chains heralds a message of peace.

Perhaps the most unique of any Frank Gehry design for one simple reason: Gehry himself actually lives here.

On a quiet suburban street stands a peculiarly decorated house covered in mosaics.

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

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

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

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

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

A macabre tour of Hollywood’s deadly history.

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

Because there's no place like home.

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

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.