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

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

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

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

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

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

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.

This iconic neon jester is a local landmark that you might recognize from his cameos in film and television.

A landmark for a trailblazer for female architects and the designer of one of the most famous and opulent buildings in California.

A miniature train theme park, free to the public, laying at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains.

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

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

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Many Hindus make the long pilgrimage to this holy city to have their remains burned on the banks of the Ganges River.

Inside the dome of this gigantic, Saturn-shaped building is one of the largest planetariums in Asia.

This magnificent 18th-century hall consists of a maze of nearly a thousand interconnected passages.

Temples adorned with intricate, erotic sculptures make up one of the "seven wonders" of India.

This deserted palace is one of the finest examples of Indo-Islamic architecture in India.

A pair of nearly 1,000-year-old temples profusely covered in meticulous stone carvings.