The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

The neighborhood of Eagle Rock is named after a gigantic boulder with a shadowy surprise.

Common all over Japan, kōbans are small community police boxes, and now one is guarding one of L.A.’s megamalls.

A free library to stumble across, one of many placed worldwide if you know where to look.

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

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

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

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

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.

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

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

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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

One of the world's longest murals depicts the history of diversity in Los Angeles.