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Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.
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Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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Bronson Cave
It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.
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Bob Baker Marionette Theater
Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.
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The Silent Movie Theater
The last of its kind in the country.
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Hollywood Sign
Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.
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The Magic Castle
The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.
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Venice Beach Freakshow
The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.
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Angels Flight
Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.
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La Brea Tar Pits Dragonfly Fossils
These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.
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Museum of Tolerance
A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.
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Los Angeles Zoo Botanical Gardens
The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.
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Tom Mankiewicz Conservation Carousel
A carousel trades in its classic horses and calliope for endangered species, native flora and fauna, and a modern soundtrack.
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Youngwood Court
Iconic Los Angeles residence famous for its 19 statues of Michelangelo's David.
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Mel Brooks Handprint
There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.
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Muscle Beach
An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.
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Reggie The Alligator
Raised illegally, Reggie now lives at the Los Angeles Zoo after authorities spent years tracking him down.
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The Happy Foot/Sad Foot Sign
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.
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Autry National Center
Wild West history in Hollywood style.
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‘Urban Light’
Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.
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Triforium
A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.
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Old Zoo Picnic Area
The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.
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Griffith Observatory’s Tesla Coil
High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.
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The Last Bookstore
This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.
