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

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

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.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

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

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

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.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

Someone really, really wanted to save this fast-food icon from demolition.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.

Hawai'i's oldest wooden house was shipped around Cape Horn from Boston in 1820.

A different Edgar Allan Poe built this charming Victorian home.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.