Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

The White House Situation Room was taken apart in 2006 and shipped to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

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

An ultra-modern vista that has been featured in so many films the house is a celebrity in its own right.

A master of deception, Harry Houdini's greatest trick may have been living in two places at once.

The mysterious, untimely death of a Canned Heat band member still haunts this unfinished home.

You don't want to get caught in this trap--or do you?

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

One of the world's longest murals depicts the history of diversity in Los Angeles.

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

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

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

This park is home to California's first oil boomtown, with structures that have stood for more than a century.

The final resting place of one of Hollywood’s most prolific and talented actors is on the grounds of a California Mission.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Where the line between entertainment and aerospace blurs.

According to legend it was a nap taken under this tree that kicked off the California Gold Rush.