This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

A beautiful memorial tells the story of a formerly enslaved woman whose kindness shaped a burgeoning city.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

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

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

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

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

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

Apartment building was once posh playground to the Hollywood elite.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

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

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

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

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

Enormous burial mounds of ancient emperors.

Wooden sleds have replaced donkeys to cart goods around this utterly charming car-free village.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.