A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

An outback test site for the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult.

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.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

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

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

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

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

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

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

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