A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

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

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

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

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

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

Giant scissors seemingly stabbed into the side of a hair salon leave no question about the vocation of the owners.

A classic American barn that was the home of a classic American television star.

A cow in the road might subvert the flow of traffic but this one's above it all, quite literally.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

A 9 year-old boy’s elaborate cardboard arcade in his father’s used auto parts store.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

Some of the most unusual (and in some cases, disgusting) flavors of soda imaginable.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

This fully intact Neoclassical-Greek Revival style firehouse operated until 1938.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall but rather lightning.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.