A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

A "haunted" landmark on the coast of Southern California.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

This "synagogue" is not what it seems to be.

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

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

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

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

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

An ode to the friendship between four Pacific Rim countries.

It would be a crime to miss it.

The freeway that never was.

Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.