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

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.

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

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

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

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

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

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

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

Once the central jail for Los Angeles, this building housed inmates like Al Capone, those arrested from the Zoot Suit and Watts Riots, and individuals imprisoned for their sexuality.

This hands-on math museum believes in turning concepts into constructs.

Opened as part of the New Deal, the training facility now features World War II-era structures and a pylon that once stood at the World Trade Center.

A cake-themed art installation tucked away in historic Chinatown.

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

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.