An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Home to a forest of whimsical pygmy Coast live oak.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

The largest public collection of roses in the United States.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A few times a day, you can see an animatronic cowboy shoot-out.

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

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

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

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

Built in 1899, this luxurious home was part of one of the first gated communities in Los Angeles.

This jagged colossus of a building is mostly held together by an enormous concrete exoskeleton.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

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

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.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

A strange mishmash of ruins and abandoned structures hint at the park's many lives.

An Old West film set seen in countless TV shows and movies is open for the public to explore.