This vintage car parts store is also a museum devoted to a squat little gem of automotive history.

These two monoliths have stood at the entrance to the neighborhood since the days it was called "Hollywoodland."

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

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

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

This stately structure has been abandoned for half a century.

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

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

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.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.