Instead of hoofing it up steep stairs, residents can hitch a ride on this private lift.

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

A master of deception, Harry Houdini's greatest trick may have been living in two places at once.

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

A little barn in the middle of the city preserving Hollywood treasures since 1985.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

This large pile of traveler-curated rocks by the dry lakebed is a longstanding tradition on the Old Mojave Road.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.

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

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

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

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

This park is home to California's first oil boomtown, with structures that have stood for more than a century.

An abandoned 1930s gas station turned bustling neighborhood park.

Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.