After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

Famous and forgotten figures lie beneath the faded headstones and decaying planks of wood.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

This large collection of tiny things revels in the art of fine machinery well made.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

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 giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

According to legend it was a nap taken under this tree that kicked off the California Gold Rush.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.