Places Dapper Dan 9 Wants to Go

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

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

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.

Because there's no place like home.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

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

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

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

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.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

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

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.