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

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

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

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

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

A plaque outside the San Jose airport commemorates the insect's arrival to the West Coast.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

Guarded by the Angel of Grief, the Stanford family tomb attracts an odd mix of halloween revelry and somber contemplation.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

One of the largest Marian shrines on the West Coast stands rather unexpectedly in Silicon Valley.

A giant can of fruit cocktail is all that remains of what was once the world's largest cannery.

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

A comprehensive collection of Pez dispensers.

A large instrument played by the wind.