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

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

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.

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

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

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

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

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

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

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

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.