Working mining and drilling equipment demonstrate 150 years of energy history.

One of the best collections of antique printing machinery in the world.

This museum honors the first Spanish land grant in California which is still in the hands of the original owner's family.

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.

Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.

One of California's oldest continually used high schools has an interesting history, both on and off screen.

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

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

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

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

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

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

Inside this library, the history of Los Angeles is retold through a mural.

A relief that wraps around the concourse of Los Angeles's World Trade Center marks one of the city's failed urban design plans.

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

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

The short oil boom of Venice Beach, and its swift removal from the tourism-laden landscape.

Where a great scandal unfolded with a famous female revivalist at its center.