This small museum inside a larger sports complex honors the first Native American to win an Olympic gold medal for the U.S., and his life of achievement and struggle.

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

A beautiful memorial tells the story of a formerly enslaved woman whose kindness shaped a burgeoning city.

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

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

The most popular attraction in Southern California was once a flock of ornery bipedal birds that pulled carts.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

This sculpture presents commentary on a life in pursuit of profits.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

The short oil boom of Venice Beach, and its swift removal from the tourism-laden landscape.

Apartment building was once posh playground to the Hollywood elite.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

Where a great scandal unfolded with a famous female revivalist at its center.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

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

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

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

The words of the neighborhood's most famous poets adorn four concrete walls.

Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

A black and white mural stands out from its psychedelic surroundings.

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

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.