From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

A spiritual center in the Santa Monica Mountains founded by Alice Coltrane after the death of her husband and fellow jazz musician John Coltrane.

An Old West film set seen in countless TV shows and movies is open for the public to explore.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

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

The world's first disc golf course has the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a neighbor.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

Hiding amid the largest camellia collection in the country lies a charming children's maze, donated by a secret admirer.

An ultra-modern vista that has been featured in so many films the house is a celebrity in its own right.

A classic American barn that was the home of a classic American television star.

A 1950s Googie burger stand is now a Los Angeles landmark.

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

This peaceful garden is hidden on the grounds of a spiritual organization founded by a pioneer yogi.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

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

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

Once the central jail for Los Angeles, this building housed inmates like Al Capone, those arrested from the Zoot Suit and Watts Riots, and individuals imprisoned for their sexuality.

These were the largest wind chimes in the world when artist Tom Van Sant created them for a California mall in 1967.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

This Southern Californian Conservation Center is home to singing and howling apes.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

Where the rich wintered in Pasadena.