A plaque marks the humble origins of an artistic muse who embodied the ideals of Pre-Raphaelite beauty.

The fantastic charm of England's oldest botanical garden has made it a place of writerly inspiration for centuries.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

Pay your respects to departed pets, both celebrity and otherwise.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

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

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

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

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

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

The beautiful 1920 Pantages Theatre remains hidden just underneath the LA Downtown Jewelry Exchange.

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

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

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.

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

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

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

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

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.