Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

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.

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

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

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

The decor of this Hollywood movie palace just barely predated the opening of King Tut's tomb.

This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.

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

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

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

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

This L.A. fixture has been serving hot dogs out of a giant hot dog since 1946.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

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

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

The most popular attraction in Southern California was once a flock of ornery bipedal birds that pulled carts.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

The house where Good Will Hunting was written is a surreal fairytale abode.