A non-native grove of 241 redwoods in Southern California.

Working mining and drilling equipment demonstrate 150 years of energy history.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

An academy where anyone can train in the exciting acrobatic sports of parkour and freerunning.

A wild west scene starring life-sized wooden statues hides in the trees behind Pierce College.

Once the central jail for Los Angeles, this building housed inmates like Al Capone, those arrested from the Zoot Suit and Watts Riots, and individuals imprisoned for their sexuality.

A treasure hunter's tiny bar, harboring celebrities since 1959.

These two monoliths have stood at the entrance to the neighborhood since the days it was called "Hollywoodland."

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

One of Los Angeles's first murals once vibrantly depicted the dangers of United States imperialism.

Raised illegally, Reggie now lives at the Los Angeles Zoo after authorities spent years tracking him down.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

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

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

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