This failed condo development was reborn as a street art hub.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

Because there's no place like home.

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

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

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

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

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.