NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

The world's first disc golf course has the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a neighbor.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

Former 1954 Del Mar Train Station now serves signature cocktails and delightful culinary treats, and still operates as a Metro stop.

Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

A relic from a forgotten bakery chain still spins atop a diner.

Fans of the spicy bright-red sauce can tour where it's made.

A 9 year-old boy’s elaborate cardboard arcade in his father’s used auto parts store.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

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

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

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

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

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

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.

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

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

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

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.