Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

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.

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

Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

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.

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

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

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

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

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