A modern frieze of ancient Grecian mythological figures playing a national pastime.

800 apricot trees honor Silicon Valley's agricultural history.

This grand memorial remembers the 20 members of the Los Angeles Times killed when the office was bombed.

A hidden oasis in the heart of Minneapolis is also an Important Bird Area.

This antique shop specializes in the history of print and design.

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

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

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

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

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

The last of its kind in the country.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

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

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

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

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

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