A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

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

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

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.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

The largest drain hole in the world.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

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

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

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

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

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