Mexico City's largest market contains a Willy Wonka-esque wonderland.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

The decor of this Hollywood movie palace just barely predated the opening of King Tut's tomb.

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

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

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

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

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

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

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

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

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

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 private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

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

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

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