Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

A free library to stumble across, one of many placed worldwide if you know where to look.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

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

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

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

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

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.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

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

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.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.