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

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

The famous blue house from the classic horror film "Halloween" is now a local landmark.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

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

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

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

The decor of this Hollywood movie palace just barely predated the opening of King Tut's tomb.

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

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

This sculpture presents commentary on a life in pursuit of profits.

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

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

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

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

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.