An academy where anyone can train in the exciting acrobatic sports of parkour and freerunning.

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

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

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

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

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

Where the line between entertainment and aerospace blurs.

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.

A little barn in the middle of the city preserving Hollywood treasures since 1985.

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

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

An enchanted arts space which assumes infinite identities.

One of the world's largest collections of rare and magnificent bird specimens.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

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

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

A 9 year-old boy’s elaborate cardboard arcade in his father’s used auto parts store.

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