It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

Because there's no place like home.

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

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

The remains of a boarding school designed to forcibly assimilate Native American children.

A tribute to the statues of Easter Island along Route 66.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.

This small, unassuming street is now a canvas for color and creativity.

The site of a popular piano lounge owned by a former world champion boxer is now a place to rent a truck.