ANSWER: Shown in the photo is what is officially recorded as Los Angeles' steepest hill -- the 2100 block of W Fargo St. It has a 32% grade and dips down from its lofty height to meet Allesandro St., where that thoroughfare intersects with Glendale Blvd.
ANSWER: Shown in the photo is the white, blue and golden temple of the Self-Realization Fellowship. It is on Sunset Blvd. between Catalina and Edgemont Sts., just west of Vermont Ave.
ANSWER: That enlarged photo of a movie actor and that high-perched globe at the Crossroads of the World and those palm trees should've told you that the photo was made on Sunset Blvd. The beautiful edifice itself is the church of the Blessed Sacrament at 6657 Sunset blvd., truly one of Hollywood's most magnificent churches.
ANSWER: Now that you think of it, the beach shown in the photo is the broad expanse of the municipal beach at Venice, looking south toward Playa del Rey. That horizontal black line in center of the picture is the Pacific Ocean. What the photo lacks: Bathing beauties.