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

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

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.

This jagged colossus of a building is mostly held together by an enormous concrete exoskeleton.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

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

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

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 real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

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

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

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

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

Though the original building has been demolished, these massive bronze doors were saved.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

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

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

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