Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

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

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

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

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

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

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

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

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.