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

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

Wild West history in Hollywood style.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

Friendships have been forged over ham and eggs every Wednesday morning for nearly a century.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

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

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

Hiding amid the largest camellia collection in the country lies a charming children's maze, donated by a secret admirer.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.

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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

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

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

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

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

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

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

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.