Shops in Los Angeles

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

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

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

The mall's looks were inspired by the cowboy extras who used to meet up—and cause real trouble—at this Hollywood hub.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

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

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

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.

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

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

A 9 year-old boy’s elaborate cardboard arcade in his father’s used auto parts store.

Giant scissors seemingly stabbed into the side of a hair salon leave no question about the vocation of the owners.