This park celebrates a sister city relationship that survived the Cold War.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

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

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

A bright California graveyard with a decidedly dark side.

One of the richest places in the United States has a cursed street.

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

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

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

The beautiful 1920 Pantages Theatre remains hidden just underneath the LA Downtown Jewelry Exchange.

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

This "synagogue" is not what it seems to be.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.