The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.

Law-protected wreckage serves as a peculiar memorial for an almost forgotten World War II tragedy.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

A "haunted" landmark on the coast of Southern California.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

An ultra-modern vista that has been featured in so many films the house is a celebrity in its own right.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

No one's quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.