This whimsical campus lawn is dotted with large sculpted numbers and hidden mathematical formulas.

Oldest building in California still in use.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

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

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

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

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Quite possibly the last cross all humans will ever see.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

This Chase branch is an homage to Old Hollywood.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

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

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

The final resting place of a space program monolith.