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America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

"The greatest unknown literary treasure in Los Angeles."

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

This gray utility box is not full of wires; it is a tiny, operational theater hiding on a Downtown Los Angeles sidewalk.

A fashion designer's dazzling world of Japanese collectibles is hidden in a warehouse downtown.

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

One of Los Angeles's first murals once vibrantly depicted the dangers of United States imperialism.

Friendships have been forged over ham and eggs every Wednesday morning for a century.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

One of the world's largest collections of rare and magnificent bird specimens.

Hidden away among the quiet streets of Beverly Hills, this small park is a haven for walkers and wildlife.

One of the richest places in the United States has a cursed street.

Perhaps the most unique of any Frank Gehry design for one simple reason: Gehry himself actually lives here.

Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.

Gnomes have their very own bonsai-landscaped settlement on a university campus.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

A "haunted" landmark on the coast of Southern California.

Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.

One of the best collections of antique printing machinery in the world.

This Chinese art gallery is hidden inside the Sunrider Corporation headquarters.

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

A burial vault located under Tiber Island in the middle of the Italian capital.