A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

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

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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

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

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

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.

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

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

From sax to spuds, get 'em all at this landmark music establishment.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

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

Common all over Japan, kōbans are small community police boxes, and now one is guarding one of L.A.’s megamalls.

The last of its kind in the country.

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

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.