Instead of hoofing it up steep stairs, residents can hitch a ride on this private lift.

These two monoliths have stood at the entrance to the neighborhood since the days it was called "Hollywoodland."

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

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

Wild West history in Hollywood style.

A carousel trades in its classic horses and calliope for endangered species, native flora and fauna, and a modern soundtrack.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

A miniature train theme park, free to the public, laying at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains.

This historic aviation building is now a museum owned and operated by Disney.

A little barn in the middle of the city preserving Hollywood treasures since 1985.

Rare collectibles from automated musical instruments to 250 unique automobiles.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.

Where a railroad loops under or over itself to rise or drop more than 70 feet in a short distance.

Gouged in the mountain to make stage coach access easier through the Fremont Pass.

According to legend it was a nap taken under this tree that kicked off the California Gold Rush.

This park is home to California's first oil boomtown, with structures that have stood for more than a century.

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

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.

Built by one man in the '20s, this site is now a museum representing the Great Basin cultures.