From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

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.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

A gift from Abbot Kinney and a little bit of piece of Black history in Venice Beach.

The quirky salon doubles as a retro museum run by the world's leading "hairstorian."

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

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

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

Santa Monica's oldest restaurant, decorated with set pieces from the Mutiny on the Bounty.

Grab a latte at the birthplace of modern American skateboarding.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

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.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

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

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

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

This Pringle-shaped ledge makes for the perfect photo op.

In 1952, this restaurant began selling the Colonel's “secret” recipe.

This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.