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

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

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

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

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

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

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

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

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

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

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

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

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

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

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

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

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.

This monolithic slab of art metal crowns a German slag heap.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

No need to strap in for a “ride” on this walkable roller coaster.

This massive steel pyramid can be entered by a set of jagged steps that let visitors stand in its heart.

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.