Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

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

Raised illegally, Reggie now lives at the Los Angeles Zoo after authorities spent years tracking him down.

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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

"The Star Factory" cranked out Hollywood stars like nobody's business.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

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

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.