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

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

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

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

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

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

This 'Murder House' grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

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

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

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

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.

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

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

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.