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

Where the line between entertainment and aerospace blurs.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

One of the world's largest collections of rare and magnificent bird specimens.

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

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

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

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

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

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.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

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

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

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.

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

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

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

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.