A miniature train theme park, free to the public, laying at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

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

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

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

These two monoliths have stood at the entrance to the neighborhood since the days it was called "Hollywoodland."

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

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

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

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.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

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

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.