This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

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

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

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

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.