A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

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

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

Oldest building in California still in use.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

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.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

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

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

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

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

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

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

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

Because there's no place like home.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.