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This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

The house where Good Will Hunting was written is a surreal fairytale abode.

Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

A macabre tour of Hollywood’s deadly history.

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.

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

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

One of the world's longest murals depicts the history of diversity in Los Angeles.

Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.

One of the world's largest collections of rare and magnificent bird specimens.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

Where the line between entertainment and aerospace blurs.

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

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

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

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

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

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

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

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

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.