One of the greatest heroes of the Titanic tragedy came from humble beginnings to this beautiful home.

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

A free library to stumble across, one of many placed worldwide if you know where to look.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

The last orange grove of the San Fernando Valley is owned and protected by CSU Northridge.

The ruins of the movie ranch owned by actor and stuntman Ray "Crash" Corrigan.

Rusty pieces of metal jutting out of a breakwater are all that's visible of the 12,500-ton ocean liner that capsized just off the beach.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

Windswept and remote, this island was once the home of a rare mammoth and today is home to a rare tree.

This nonsensical smiling boat shuttles passengers between two places they could've easily walked between.

One incredible room in the Santa Barbara Courthouse is covered in wall-to-wall canvas murals.

Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

A simple statue outside a California Amtrak station honors the overlooked contributions of the "silent spikes."

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

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

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.