The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

An informal walk of fame in front of a Hollywood office building remembers a comedic great and his associates.

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

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

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

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

A quirky collection of figurines backdropped by city views is hidden next to a popular restaurant in the Hollywood hills.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

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

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

According to legend it was a nap taken under this tree that kicked off the California Gold Rush.

Gouged in the mountain to make stage coach access easier through the Fremont Pass.

The mysterious, untimely death of a Canned Heat band member still haunts this unfinished home.

You don't want to get caught in this trap--or do you?

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

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.