"Looks so real, it's scary!"

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

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

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

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

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

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

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

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.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.