This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

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

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

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.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

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

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.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

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 abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

This Singaporean food-court stall was home to the world's cheapest Michelin-starred meal.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

A crumbling cathedral condemned by an earthquake.

An ancient system of freshwater caves filled with animal bones, including that of species long-extinct.

A magical sinkhole on the Yucatán Peninsula is adorned with mini waterfalls and hanging vines.

A flooded Mexican cave that hides a river beneath the water.