Think you're too cynical, sophisticated, debauched or underfunded to visit the Happiest Place on Earth? This one's for you. I am of Disneyland. My love for Walt Disney's 54-year-old theme park can move (space!) mountains. In fact, my love for Disneyland is so perfect and so complete that I don't really mind if you hate it. Somehow I've managed to acquire a number of friends who steadfastly ...

A lot has changed at Disneyland since the park first opened in 1955. Over the nearly six decades that have passed since its debut, many things at the Happiest Place on Earth have either been lost over time or met with a wrecking ball during one of the park's many expansions and refurbishments. We list five original Disneyland artifacts that existed in the park back when Walt walked Main Street, ...

There are Disneyland secrets, like secret Easter eggs built into rides. Then there are Disneyland secrets, hidden on the statue of Walt Disney 's tie or in decode-able clues left by Imagineers or in a nondescript building that's actually a private home hidden away at Disneyland. And then there 's the Dominguez Palm, a piece of history older than the park, with a story that starts long before Mickey ...