A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

Raised illegally, Reggie now lives at the Los Angeles Zoo after authorities spent years tracking him down.

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

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

This strangely amalgamated museum explores the history of the Timex clock company as well as archaeology.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

An abandoned dollhouse factory.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

360-degree virtual reality chamber physically immerses scientists into their data.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.