Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

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

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

Malibu's first beach home features an astonishing trove of ceramic tiles.

A little-known hot spring haven right below the highway.

Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

A remote desert lookout offers unparalleled views of the California badlands for those who brave the trek.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

The decaying adobe remains of an old homestead are just off the beaten path in Joshua Tree National Park.

Gorgeous purple flowers drape from the world's largest blossoming plant.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

Colorado Boulevard’s historic bookstore, operating since the bustling city of Pasadena was merely some orange groves and a few ostrich farms.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

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

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.