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

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

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

Wild West history in Hollywood style.

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

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

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

66,000 pieces of art, donated by one of the world's richest men.

Two waterfalls flow down the cliff faces decorated with rare natural basalt columns.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."