Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

A bright California graveyard with a decidedly dark side.

Made famous by cable TV, this oddball collection of antiques and collectibles is a cut above the rest.

The Mighty Wurlitzer organ continues to belt out the tunes at downtown El Segundo's historic home for silent and classic movies.

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

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

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

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

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

One incredible room in the Santa Barbara Courthouse is covered in wall-to-wall canvas murals.

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

The lavish temple of the Cao Dai religion that includes Buddha, Mohammed, Joan of Arc, and Victor Hugo.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

Buried in the Laos jungle is a sanctuary for bears that would have otherwise been milked to death by poachers.

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.