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

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

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

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

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

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

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

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

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

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling) themed taco shop.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.