Los Angeles's own Eiffel Tower (or Empire State Building or London Eye) is made up of 202 cast-iron street lamps, many of which once stood on LA streets. The lights are now solar-powered and come on every night at dusk. If you don't want to stand on Wilshire watching them all night, they do have their own "virtual flipbook" ap.

"America Tropical" was painted on the Italian Hall at El Pueblo in 1932, but whitewashed shortly after. The Getty Conservation Institute and the city of Los Angeles finished up a long-term conservation on the mural in 2012.

Since its unveiling in 1975, this “polyphonoptic sculpture” by mosaic artist and sculptor Joseph Young has been on a rollercoaster. Widely mocked as a boondoggle since its opening, the sculpture faded into the background until recent years, when a campaign to restore it gained steam.

This Banksy piece went up in the spring of 2010 on the side of jewelry designer Tarina Tarantino's Sparkle Factory in Downtown. It has stayed intact despite an incident which resulted in part of it being temporarily vandalized.

A stretch of Van Nuys Boulevard in Pacoima is painted with so many awesome murals that it’s been dubbed Mural Mile. Works by Levi Ponce and Hector Ponce can be spotted among the many, many pieces on walls of salons, markets, and other small businesses.

Last month, the spooky ruin that was the Sunset Pacific motel was transformed into a giant white art piece that the artist says was intended to both blend in and stand out. The hotel is expected to be razed to make way for one of three mixed-use complexes planned for Sunset Junction.

This mural at Ruben F. Salazar Park was commissioned in 2000 by the famed norteño band Los Tigres del Norte.

This 15-foot tall, 10-foot wide chandelier is "created by a cylindrical array of abstracted lotus flower shapes made of laser-cut aluminum and illuminated with white light." The lotus is a symbol of enlightenment in Korean culture.

It sits out in front of The Vermont apartment complex, obscuring the parking structure.

Find this mural at Union Station, where the tunnels to the Amtrak/Metrolink trains meet Patsaourus Plaza. It reflects all Angelenos, past and present, showing Native Americans, settlers, and present-day residents of LA.

Wyatt's done a number of other projects throughout the city in areas that accommodate mass transit, like the 110 Freeway and a Purple Line station.

Hollywood specializes in odd celebrity murals, but these are some of the most recognizable ones. They were painted in 2001 on the side of the otherwise unremarkable Harvey Apartments. They underwent restoration in 2016.

Ten original segments of the Berlin Wall arrived in Los Angeles in late 2009; they were installed on Wilshire Boulevard and painted by artists including Kent Twitchell and Thierry Noir. According to the Wende Museum, which brought the pieces to LA, they "form the longest stretch of this iconic historical monument outside of Berlin."

Don't embarrass yourself by walking into one of these nine crafty pieces—they blend into the downtown Culver City landscape at first, but they're actually utility boxes wrapped in vinyl that's printed with images of the surrounding area.

In 1999, faculty in USC's Filmic Writing Program commissioned "Blacklist," which consists of 10 stone benches engraved with quotes from members of the blacklisted Hollywood Ten. The piece sits in a garden designed by Professor Achva Benzinberg Stein.

"Motordom" is four stories of neon and argon tubes that send red and blue light flashing around Caltrans District 7's outdoor lobby, through its glass walls, and into the Morphosis-designed building.

According to the Department of Transportation, it's the largest public art installation in LA.

"Cradle" is made up of hundreds of stainless steel balls hanging in office toy formation off the side of the parking structure at the Santa Monica Place mall. The piece went up in the summer of 2010.

Calder's sculpture is 63 feet tall and bright orangey red, so it stands out on Bunker Hill, where it sits in the Bank of America building's plaza.

According to the Community Redevelopment Agency of LA, which commissioned the piece in the 1970s, its main curves stem from one main spine.

Golia helpfully put up this Golia-tracker on top of the Standard Hotel in early 2010. The giant, circular white light glows only when the artist is in Los Angeles.

The Great Wall of Los Angeles stretches for a half a mile along the Tujunga Flood Control Channel and tells the history of California starting in the prehistoric era. It was started in 1974 and painted by hundreds of young locals, along with artists and other community members.

The Social and Public Art Resource Center, the group that created the mural, has been working on a major restoration and extension, as well as a pedestrian bridge that would cross over the wash and offer better views of the piece.

The "Inverted Clocktower" is made to look like the relief of a clocktower that was magically removed whole from the corner of the Grand Central Market's parking structure. The clocktower's clock dials run counterclockwise and its Roman numerals are reversed.

What are the sculptures of "sixbeaststwomonkeys," which sit alongside the LAPD headquarters Downtown? Then-Chief Bill Bratton guessed they were "some kind of cow splat" when they were installed in 2009. Headless animals? Creepy babies? Who knows, but everyone seems to have an odd fondness for them anyway.

Thanks to Hollywood, the pylons and LAX letters at LAX are familiar the world over after only 15 years in place. Tanaka's letters are 32 feet high; Tzanetopoulos's 26 pylons range from 25 to 60 feet along Century Blvd. and hit 100 feet at Century and Sepulveda.

The lights were replaced with LEDs in 2006—they "burn less electricity while providing more vibrant hues," according to Los Angeles World Airports. However, the pylons' electricity still costs the airport $18,000 a year.

Pasadena's giant fork in the road is technically, in a Caltrans median. It first went up in the dead of night in 2009, as a birthday prank for a comedy club owner. Everyone took such a shine to it that, after some time off the road, it was stuck in permanently in October 2011.

The Venice Art Walls are open for painting by any artist with a permit and the urge (on weekends and holidays anyway). They're curated by In Creative Unity, a "graffitti arts advocacy group," that "has lead the movement to preserve the walls as a living memorial to the high quality graffiti style art which has taken place on these walls for over thirty years."

Stone, perhaps eponymously, created rocky outcroppings throughout this subway station. According to Metro, they're "based on the actual geology of this location."

At the Expo Line's Expo/Vermont station, these watercolor collages "describe the window frames, doorways and garden gates that define the architecture of entryways" in West Adams. On the platform, there are "similarly assembled paintings of local residents seated in the interiors of their homes."

For the art-loving sports fan or the sports-loving arts fan, the statue of Abdul-Jabbar (in skyhook position) joined the small group of statues outside Staples last year. You can also see Magic Johnson, Jerry West, Chick Hearn, Oscar de la Hoya, and Wayne Gretzky.

Faculty members won a competition to design this SCI-Arc graduation pavilion, which gets its name from its sunblocking powers. Back in 2013, it was reported the piece would sit in the school's parking lot for four or five years. It’s still there.

Artist, contractor, and set-builder Adam Tenenbaum started stringing up spare chandeliers in the tree outside his house one day with the help of his aerialist roommate, and several years later the neighborhood is in love with this lovely piece. Only in Silver Lake!

It's not entirely public, but you can see this enormous rainbow from several spots in Culver City. The piece is supposedly a tribute to The Wizard of Oz, which was shot on the MGM (now Sony) lot.