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

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

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

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

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

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

A natural arch offers panoramic views of Yangshuo's karst hills.

A harrowing trail up a mile-high mountain.

Snow-capped peaks, colorful waterfalls and stunning vistas on the edge of the Himalayas.

Not one, not two, but three natural bridges remain in this captivating spot post-sinkhole.