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

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

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

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

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.

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

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

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

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

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

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.