Mexican food and folk art.

This California tree is the single source of the state's entire orange industry.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

A historic fort commemorating the United States' naval history.

Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.

A small, peaceful sculpture garden with a grim memorial to a disaster that took place a few blocks away.

This museum honors the first Spanish land grant in California which is still in the hands of the original owner's family.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

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

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

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

Celebrating the accomplishments of Black firefighters in Los Angeles.

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

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

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

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

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