On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

Mexican food and folk art.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

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

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

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

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

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.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.