This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

A large instrument played by the wind.

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

"Only the devil could play golf here."

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

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

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

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

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

This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.

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

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.