An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

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

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

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

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

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

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

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

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

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.