The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

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

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

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

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

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

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

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

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

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

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

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.