A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

Instead of hoofing it up steep stairs, residents can hitch a ride on this private lift.

The last orange grove of the San Fernando Valley is owned and protected by CSU Northridge.

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.

These two monoliths have stood at the entrance to the neighborhood since the days it was called "Hollywoodland."

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

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.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

A towering monument to war, located on a beautifully peaceful hill.

The site of good faith and good nature in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

The non-native bovine herd was brought in to help conserve these Berlin wetlands.

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.