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

Hand-crafted tributes to a stray cat named "Room 8" now cover this LA elementary school.

Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.

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

These two monoliths have stood at the entrance to the neighborhood since the days it was called "Hollywoodland."

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

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

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.

Because there's no place like home.

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

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.

A carousel trades in its classic horses and calliope for endangered species, native flora and fauna, and a modern soundtrack.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

The beautiful 1920 Pantages Theatre remains hidden just underneath the LA Downtown Jewelry Exchange.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.

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

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

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

A quirky collection of figurines backdropped by city views is hidden next to a popular restaurant in the Hollywood hills.