This homegrown adoption center offers a wonderland of feline companionship.

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

A macabre tour of Hollywood’s deadly history.

An academy where anyone can train in the exciting acrobatic sports of parkour and freerunning.

The house where Good Will Hunting was written is a surreal fairytale abode.

Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

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

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

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

This eight-mile stretch of road gets its name from a local legend about a lost soul searching for his head.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

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

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

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

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.