The Hollywood home of Kermit the Frog and Yoda used to be Charlie Chaplin's film studio.

A 1950s Googie burger stand is now a Los Angeles landmark.

This general store offers visitors a glimpse back into the 1930s.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

A few iconic structures are all that remain of America’s first outdoor shopping mall.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

The Hopi-style structure was built by the man who discovered Desert Hot Springs' famous mineral water.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

This California tree is the single source of the state's entire orange industry.

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.

This strangely vacant Western amusement seems to be an empty tribute to residents of Lucerne Valley.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

The creator of the carousel's bingo-pinball hybrid survives in California's oldest gaming establishment.

Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

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

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

One of the best collections of antique printing machinery in the world.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.