Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

A lovely summer day by the sea becomes a nightmare.

This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

Cambria's most unique B&B features creative surroundings and fantastic food.

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

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

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