The Magic House provides a beautiful and creative environment for curious youngsters to get their knowledge on.

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

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

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

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.

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

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

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

A 1950s Googie burger stand is now a Los Angeles landmark.

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

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

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

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

A wild west scene starring life-sized wooden statues hides in the trees behind Pierce College.

"Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament."

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

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

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

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.