The city of Fresno is at the heart of Fresno County, the fifth-largest county in California and the USA’s leading agricultural region. The Kings Canyon, Sequoia and Yosemite national parks are all close to the city. The Fresno Metropolitan Museum has a permanent exhibition on the life of William Saroyan, the Pulitzer Prize- and Oscar-winning author who grew up in Fresno, as well as a large collection of landscape paintings by Ansel Adams and Maynard Dixon, and Native American baskets. The charming Chaffee Zoo features rainforest, orangutan and tiger exhibits and the world’s first computerised reptile house, where temperature, humidity and light cycles are controlled to resemble a natural habitat, as well as regular camel rides and hippo feeding. Children also love Storyland, with its buildings inspired by fairy tales. The Meux Home (1899) and the Kearney Mansion (1906) are museums recreating turn-of-the-century lifestyles, while the Forestiere Underground Gardens, a 60-room underground maze over 4 hectares (10 acres), is one of the city’s more unusual attractions.