This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

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

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

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.

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

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

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

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

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

This 'Murder House' grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

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

A relief that wraps around the concourse of Los Angeles's World Trade Center marks one of the city's failed urban design plans.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

One of the world's longest murals depicts the history of diversity in Los Angeles.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

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