Wild West history in Hollywood style.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

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

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

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

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

A "haunted" landmark on the coast of Southern California.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Oldest building in California still in use.

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

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

The American rainmaker and a burst dam.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

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.