A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

The largest drain hole in the world.

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

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

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

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

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

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).