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

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

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

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

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

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

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

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

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

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