Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

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

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

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

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

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

This shrine to bovine consumption and all things fast food is a slice of culinary history both rare and well done.

With nickel-steel armor and three-inch thick bullet resistant windows, FDR's train was a rolling fortress.

In memory of the 110 victims of ValuJet Flight 592 that crashed in the Everglades.

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.

A perfect circle of 24 mysterious holes dates back to prehistoric times.

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

An underwater city for the dead.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

Steam out your ears for New Year's Eve.

Where Greenpoint's first European settler—and troublemaker—made his home.

A Yiddish theater turned movie house turned rock and roll landmark turned gay disco turned bank.