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

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

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

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.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

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

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

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

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.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

This lovely pocket park is one of the most under appreciated in D.C.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.