Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

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

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.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

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

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

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

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

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

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.