Former 1954 Del Mar Train Station now serves signature cocktails and delightful culinary treats, and still operates as a Metro stop.

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

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

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

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

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

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

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

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

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

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

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.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

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

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.