Pasadena glamour turned government issue.

A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

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

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

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

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

Swarms of dainty flying insects swarm into the Petaloudes Valley to get busy.

The world's longest nonstop reversible cable car soars through spectacular scenery to the medieval Tatev Monastery.

This ancient monastery complex was transformed from an island to a peninsula when the lake was partially drained.

The ruins of a medieval monastery built on a perilous slope.

Called the "Armenian Stonehenge," this ring of menhirs pierced with holes may be a prehistoric astronomical observatory.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

The Citrus Variety Collection at UC Riverside contains two trees of each of the 1,000+ varieties of citrus.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.