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A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

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.

The last orange grove of the San Fernando Valley is owned and protected by CSU Northridge.

An academy where anyone can train in the exciting acrobatic sports of parkour and freerunning.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.

Once a month, an Indonesian feast appears inside an Elmhurst church hall.

This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

This neo-Gothic former auto showroom is one of the few remaining reminders of Brooklyn's "Automobile Row."

The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

Chefs from Tibet's Kham region offer steaming meat pies and noodle soups in this nook behind a jewelry store.

Manhattan and the Bronx have been playing tug-of-war over this former island neighborhood for more than a century.

The mosaic Star of David at the front of this store hints that it's no ordinary Italian grocer.