The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

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

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

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

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

Henry VIII's forgotten castle was built by the gunpowder-obsessed king to be defended solely by cannons.

A beautiful ruin of a 14th-century Plantagenet castle built by a medieval mercenary.

This overlooked gem outside Niagara Falls preserves and celebrates Iroquois culture.

This medieval sanctuary's tree-framed door looks like a portal to a mythical realm.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.