This vintage car parts store is also a museum devoted to a squat little gem of automotive history.

Though the original building has been demolished, these massive bronze doors were saved.

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

A Cold War site complete with rusty structures, hiking trails, and beautiful views.

Rare collectibles from automated musical instruments to 250 unique automobiles.

Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

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

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

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

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

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

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