Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

Rusty pieces of metal jutting out of a breakwater are all that's visible of the 12,500-ton ocean liner that capsized just off the beach.

Unusual white sandstone formations in the Los Padres National Forest.

The disdain for this dysfunctional dam is reflected in a giant pair of scissors painted on the concrete face.

Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."

The oldest pictographs on this decorated rock formation in California's Carrizo Plain date back as many as 4,000 years.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

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

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

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

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

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

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

The silent film master's legacy commemorated in all the right and wrong places.

This grand memorial remembers the 20 members of the Los Angeles Times killed when the office was bombed.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.