This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.

The decor of this Hollywood movie palace just barely predated the opening of King Tut's tomb.

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

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

A few iconic structures are all that remain of America’s first outdoor shopping mall.

This Chase branch is an homage to Old Hollywood.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

Iconic Los Angeles residence famous for its 19 statues of Michelangelo's David.

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

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

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

Common all over Japan, kōbans are small community police boxes, and now one is guarding one of L.A.’s megamalls.

The last of its kind in the country.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

An academy where anyone can train in the exciting acrobatic sports of parkour and freerunning.

The exterior of this home was used for the hit television show, The Brady Bunch.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

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

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.