Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

This unusually circular centenarian barn became a Route 66 icon.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

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

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

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

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

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

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

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

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

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

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

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

Sid Vicious famously punched a hole in the wall of this iconic music venue.

A museum packed with instruments, lyrics, and other mementos of the American folk icon.

This museum holds not just a world class collection of firefighting artifacts and gear but even the region's first fire station itself.

The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.

Behind the Cowboy Hall of Fame is a burial ground for good horses and a famed rodeo bull.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.