This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A collection of 11 million buttons illustrates the human toll of the Holocaust.

In the "Danish Capital of America," a replica of one of Copenhagen's most iconic buildings.

Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.

The lead horse on a Disneyland merry-go-round that is older than the park itself.

Inspiration struck on this seat outside the Griffith Park merry-go-round.

A family agreed to sell their property to Disney on the condition that this tree, planted as a wedding gift, would not be removed.

The oldest attraction in Disneyland is a prehistoric stump that Walt may have bought for his wife.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Hiding amid the largest camellia collection in the country lies a charming children's maze, donated by a secret admirer.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

Although he donated over 3,000 acres to Los Angles, Griffith's life was marred by controversy.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

Wild West history in Hollywood style.

Raised illegally, Reggie now lives at the Los Angeles Zoo after authorities spent years tracking him down.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

A carousel trades in its classic horses and calliope for endangered species, native flora and fauna, and a modern soundtrack.

A miniature train theme park, free to the public, laying at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.