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

Because there's no place like home.

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

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

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.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

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

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

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

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

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

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

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

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

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

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

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

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 'Murder House' grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

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

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

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