The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

World's largest precision optical instrument used to detect Einstein's elusive gravity waves.

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

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

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

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

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

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

An engraved boulder marks the spot where Patsy Cline's life ended in a plane crash.

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

Religion and personal struggle gave birth to this collection of concrete angels.

The crumbling ruins of this southern American fort have survived storms, war, and cults.

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.

A museum dedicated to the lovable crime couple Bonnie & Clyde, just a few miles away from the site of their early demise.