High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

The Citrus Variety Collection at UC Riverside contains two trees of each of the 1,000+ varieties of citrus.

Mexican food and folk art.

A small medical museum with a recreated doctor's office.

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

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

This mysterious petroglyph evokes the ancient swastika symbol but was later vandalized with the more troublesome Nazi one.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

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

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

An abandoned lot littered with concrete debris was once the home of the world's first female railroad president.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."