Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.

Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

One of the world's largest collections of rare and magnificent bird specimens.

"The Hoppiest Place in the World" holds the world’s largest collection of bunny memorabilia and is a singular testament of a couple's devotion to all things Leporidae.

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

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

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.