This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

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

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

A bright California graveyard with a decidedly dark side.

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.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

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

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

A lovely summer day by the sea becomes a nightmare.

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

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

This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

The stately birthplace of California's statehood.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

This remarkably simple jail went over a century without an escape.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.