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

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

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

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.

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

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

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

Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

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