A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

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

This "synagogue" is not what it seems to be.

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

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

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

A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

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

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

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.

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

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

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.