Places ktknoll Wants to Go

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

The Mighty Wurlitzer organ continues to belt out the tunes at downtown El Segundo's historic home for silent and classic movies.

Giant scissors seemingly stabbed into the side of a hair salon leave no question about the vocation of the owners.

A tribute to long time Venice Beach resident, artist and actor Dennis Hopper.

Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

A 50-foot tile mural mosaic for the 100-year anniversary of the Statue of Liberty.

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

Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.

This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.

A wild west scene starring life-sized wooden statues hides in the trees behind Pierce College.

Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

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

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

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

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.

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

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

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

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.