The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

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

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

Mexican food and folk art.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

An eccentric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

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.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.