The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Oldest building in California still in use.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

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

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

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