A few iconic structures are all that remain of America’s first outdoor shopping mall.

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

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

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

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

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

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

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

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

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

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

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

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.

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

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

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

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