Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

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.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

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

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

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

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

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

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.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.

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.

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

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

An Old West film set seen in countless TV shows and movies is open for the public to explore.